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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Borago officinalis (Boraginaceae)

Common Names
Borage; Beebread; Beeplant; Talewort
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
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 45500.0 149370.0 0.36 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed Essent. Oil 360000.0 -0.99 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed 25000.0 73000.0 0.69 Wealth of India.
LYCOPSAMINE 1 Leaf 1.0 3.0 *
LYCOPSAMINE 1 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 520.0 7436.0 1.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MALIC-ACID 15 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant *
MUCILAGE 3 Plant 110000.0 300000.0 1.71 *
MUCILAGE 3 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
MUFA 13 Seed 74750.0 220225.0 0.80 J. Pharm. Belg. 43:359-363. 1988.
NIACIN 39 Leaf 9.0 129.0 0.38 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OCTADECA-6,9,12,15-TETRAENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTADECADIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTADECATETRA-6,9,12,15-ENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTADECATRIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTADECENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 22100.0 100000.0 -0.16 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Essent. Oil 200000.0 1.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 15600.0 46600.0 0.26 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
NF-kB-Inhibitor 2 *
NO-Inhibitor 3 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 2 *
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic 1 *
Oxidant 1 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 2 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 4 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 13 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Pigment 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant 1 *