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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Seed	not available	170.6	1.40	Jim Duke's personal files.
DECAN-1-AL	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DEHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DEHYDRODIHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDRODIHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DEHYDROFUKINONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROFUKINONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DESMUTAGENIC FACTOR	1	Root	not available	146.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DIHYDROAPLOTAXENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
EO	0	Leaf	not available	285.0	-0.99	Wealth of India.
EO	0	Root	600.0	7500.0	-0.30	Wealth of India.
EREMOPHILENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	150000.0	300000.0	1.65	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	1300.0	8335.0	-0.96	Wealth of India.
FAT	0	Root	1645.0	7000.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	20000.0	94700.0	-0.83	Wealth of India.
FIBER	15	Root	19400.0	97000.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Root	not available	72000.0	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Root	not available	700000.0	3.29	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticerebrotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinergic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Antichoreic	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticirrhotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlimacteric	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoeliac	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticold	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticorneotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticoronary	6	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCrohn's	2	Martindale's 29th
AntiCTS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidandruff	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidecubitic	3	Martindale's 28th