Plant Arctium lappa (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Gobo; Great Burdock; Burdock

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ARCTIGENIN-4-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ARCTIGENIN-4-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-A	0	Fruit	not available	125.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-B	0	Fruit	not available	150.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-C	0	Fruit	not available	140.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-D	0	Fruit	not available	250.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-E	0	Fruit	not available	270.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIIN	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARCTIIN	4	Seed	11.7	30000.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTINAL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARCTINAL	0	Root	not available	0.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARCTINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARCTINOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ARCTINOL-A	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTINOL-B	0	Root	not available	0.3	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTINONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARCTINONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ARCTINONE-A	0	Root	not available	3.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTINONE-A-ACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Mucolytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Mydriatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Myorelaxant	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Narcotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	4	Shoyakugaku Zasshi, 44: 183.
Nematistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Nephrotoxic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neurogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroinhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	3	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Neurotransmitter	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	4	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.