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

Common Names
Gobo; Great Burdock; Burdock
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SESQUILIGNANS 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
SILICON 4 Root 5.3 22.5 -0.24 *
SITOSTEROL 0 Root Wealth of India.
SODIUM 1 Root 357.0 1520.0 0.19 *
STARCH 5 Root 28200.0 120000.0 -0.82 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Plant *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
STEROLS 0 Root 200.0 Wealth of India.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Root Wealth of India.
SUGARS 0 Root 35250.0 150000.0 0.45 *
TARAXASTEROL 2 Leaf Wealth of India.
TARAXASTEROL 2 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
TARAXASTEROL-ACETATE 2 Leaf Wealth of India.
TARAXASTEROL-ACETATE 2 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
TARAXASTEROL-PALMITATE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
TETRADECA-TRANS-4-CIS-6-DIENE-8,12-DIYNE-1,3-DIOL-DIACETATE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
TETRADECA-TRANS-4-CIS-6-TRANS-12-TRIENE-8,10-DIYNE-1,3-DIOL-DIACETATE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
TETRADECA-TRANS-4-TRANS-6-DIENE-8,10,12-TRIYNE-1,3-DIOL-DIACETATE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
TETRADECA-TRANS-4-TRANS-6-TRANS-12-TRIENE-8,10-DIYNE-1,3-DIOL-DIACETATE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Ovulant 1 *
Oxidant 2 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Paralytic 1 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 8 Merck 11th Edition
Pesticide 27 *
Phagocytotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phytohormonal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
Poultice 1 Martindale's 29th
Prebiotic 1 *
Probiotic 1 *
Probiotigenic 1 *
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Prooxidant 3 *
Propecic 4 *
Prostaglandigenic 1 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.