Plant Borago officinalis (Boraginaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Borage; Beebread; Beeplant; Talewort

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
SUPINIDINE?	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUPININE	4	Leaf	0.1	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUPININE	4	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SUPININE-VIRIDIFLORATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
SUPININE-VIRIDIFLORATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	30000.0	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *
THESININE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
THESININE	0	Seed	not available	200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THESININE	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
THIAMIN	31	Leaf	1.0	9.0	0.14	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
WATER	0	Herb	0.0	930000.0	-1.41	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ZINC	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Abstract (See species file)

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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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
ABeta-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Adenylate-Cyclase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	3	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allergenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacid	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacne	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).