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Common Names
Gobo; Great Burdock; Burdock
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MATAIRESINOL | 4 | Seed | not available | 170.6 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MERCURY | 1 | Root | not available | 1.3 | 4.06 | Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272. |
| METHIONINE | 15 | Root | 90.0 | 450.0 | -1.09 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| METHYL-ARCTATE-B | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MUCILAGE | 3 | Plant | 50000.0 | 120000.0 | -0.25 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| MUCILAGE | 3 | Root | 11750.0 | 120000.0 | -0.25 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRISTIC-ACID | 6 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEOARC-B | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| NEOARCTIN-B | 0 | Seed | not available | 38.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| NIACIN | 39 | Root | 3.0 | 13.0 | -1.08 | Duke, 1992 * |
| OCT-2-EN-1-AL | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| OCT-3-EN-1-OIC-ACID | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Fruit | 30000.0 | 36000.0 | -0.20 | Wealth of India. |
| PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Fruit | 10500.0 | 12600.0 | -0.17 | Wealth of India. |
| PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PECTINESTERASE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| PENTADEC-1-ENE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PEROXIDASE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| PETASITALONE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PETASITOLONE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiglaucomic | 2 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antigliomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglossitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiglycosuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antigonadotropic | 2 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antigout | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigranular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihangover | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiheartburn | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihemolytic | 2 | Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994. |
| Antihemorrhagic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antihepatitic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antihepatoadenomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihepatotic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antihepatotoxic | 6 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Antiherpetic | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiherpetic? | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihistaminic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiHIV | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |