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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
SUPINIDINE? 0 Leaf *
SUPININE 4 Leaf 0.1 3.0 *
SUPININE 4 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
SUPININE-VIRIDIFLORATE 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
SUPININE-VIRIDIFLORATE 0 Plant *
TANNIN 35 Plant 30000.0 -0.78 *
THESININE 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
THESININE 0 Seed 200.0 *
THESININE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 1.0 9.0 0.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE 3 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
WATER 0 Herb 0.0 930000.0 -1.41 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ZINC 77 Plant Abstract (See species file)
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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 *