Plant Celosia cristata (Amaranthaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cockscomb

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
AMARANTHIN	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Flower	not available	0.1	-1.14	Duke, 1992 *
BETANIN	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Flower	not available	8910.0	0.87	Duke, 1992 *
CELOSIANIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Flower	not available	9.0	-0.84	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	134000.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Flower	not available	180.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMARANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCELOSIANIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Flower	not available	6080.0	2.36	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Flower	not available	109.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Flower	not available	0.3	2.14	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Flower	not available	20600.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	181000.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Flower	not available	137.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Flower	not available	39.0	0.25	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
Hepatoprotective	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypoglycemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Immunomodulator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
Insectifuge	1	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulinogenic	2	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
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Leptingenic	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
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metal-Chelator	1	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Mucogenic	1	Li, K.M. Effect of zinc sulphate on acetic acid-induced gastric ulceration in rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 657-659, 1990.