Plant Centaurea calcitrapa (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Star-Thistle

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
PROTEIN	0	Seed	205000.0	241000.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCABIOLIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIZOLPHINE	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
Antiaflatoxin	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialopecic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiamnesic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiamyloid-Beta	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiapoplectic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiasthmatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	6	Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.