Plant Capsella bursa-pastoris (Brassicaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Shepherd's Purse

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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ACETYL-CHOLINE	19	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADONITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Plant	360.0	5500.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Plant	19000.0	161000.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	2.6	22.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BURSIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BURSINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	2080.0	17627.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	52000.0	441000.0	-1.49	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Plant	2000.0	10000.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSMETIN	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSMIN	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	3200.0	42000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	170000.0	360000.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Plant	11200.0	102000.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *

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