An official website of the United States government.

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
  1. Home
  2. Arctium lappa

Arctium lappa (Asteraceae)

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

Select a Results View:

View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
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
ARCTINONE-ACETATE 0 Plant *
ARCTINONE-B 0 Root 0.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIOL 0 Leaf *
ARCTIOPICRIN 4 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ARCTIUM-ACIDIC-XYLAN 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIUM-LAPPA-ANTIMUTAGEN 0 Root 90.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIUM-LAPPA-SESQUILIGNAN-AL-D 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIUM-LAPPA-SESQUILIGNAN-AL-F 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIUM-XYLOGLUCAN-HC-II-B 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
ARGININE 14 Root 1050.0 5250.0 -0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Root 20.0 85.0 -0.60 *
ASH 0 Leaf 8200.0 35600.0 -1.47 Wealth of India.
ASH 0 Root 7990.0 34000.0 -0.96 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Root 1770.0 8850.0 -0.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ATROPINE 51 Root 0.3 30.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
BENEDICTINOLIDE 0 Leaf *
BENZALDEHYDE 24 Root *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Leaf *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-AMYRIN-ACETATE 4 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
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
Antihomocystinuric 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihyperactivity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihyperkeratotic 1 *
Antihyperkinetic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 10 *
Antihyperthyroid 2 *
Antihypoglycemic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiimpotence 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiinfective 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 17 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomnic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiintegrase 3 *
Antiiritic 1 Martindale's 30th