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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
AMABILINE 1 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
ARABINOSE 0 Plant 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 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Shoot 39.0 -0.37 Jim Duke's personal files.
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Leaf 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 Jim Duke's personal files.
BORNESITOL 0 Plant *
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 *
COBALT 2 Plant *
CYANIDIN 7 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANOGENS 0 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CYNAUSTINE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
DELPHINIDIN 9 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
DHURRIN 1 Plant 35.0 350.0 *
ERUCIC-ACID 2 Seed 2500.0 7390.0 -0.74 Heredity 65: 249-257. 1990.
FAT 0 Leaf 7000.0 100000.0 0.87 *
FAT 0 Seed 130000.0 383000.0 0.62 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanomic 1 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 3 *
Antimenorrhagic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 3 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antimigraine 4 Martindale's 29th
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 *
Antimorphinic 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiMS 4 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antimutagenic 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyocarditic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinauseant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antinephritic 2 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antinephrolytic 1 *
Antineuralgic 2 *
Antineuramidase 1 *
Antineurasthenic 1 *
Antineuritic 1 *