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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antidementia	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	3	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidiabetic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antidyskinetic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antieczemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiedemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antifebrile	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	4	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *