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	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	1400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCONAPIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSAMINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Nagai, K. 1960. Studies on Capsella bursa-pastoris. I. Carboxylic Acids, Amino Acids, Carbohydrates, Alcohols, and Inorganic Components in C. bursa-pastoris. Yakugaku Kenkyu, 32: 617.
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTAMINE	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYSSOPIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Plant	not available	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Plant	48.0	407.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Plant	330.0	2800.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-GALACTOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-RUTINOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNOSE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Plant	4.0	34.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-AMINOBENZOSULFONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antispasmodic	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antisteatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisunburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antitachycardic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithrombogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithromboxane	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitonsilitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitrypanosomic	1	Planta Medica, 57: A44, 1991.
Antitubercular	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	7	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Breast)	2	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *