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
AMABILINE	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARABINOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	30.0	5005.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Shoot	not available	39.0	-0.37	Jim Duke's personal files.
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	25.0	360.0	0.43	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BORAGO-TRIACYLGLYCEROLS	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BORNESITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	930.0	5005.0	-0.92	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	30600.0	437580.0	-1.39	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CHOLINE	20	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANOGENS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CYNAUSTINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DELPHINIDIN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DHURRIN	1	Plant	35.0	350.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERUCIC-ACID	2	Seed	2500.0	7390.0	-0.74	Heredity 65: 249-257. 1990.
FAT	0	Leaf	7000.0	100000.0	0.87	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	130000.0	383000.0	0.62	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Vasomotor-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	4	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.