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
APIGENIN	101	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-METHYLGALACTURONIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASTRAGALIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CENTAURIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CICHORIIN	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CNICIIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	154000.0	246000.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
INULIN	19	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNOCERIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARINGENIN	56	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	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
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bifidogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive	9	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	3	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Capillariprotective	2	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	2	Science News, 146: 421.
Cardiodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cerebrotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive (Breast Cancer)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive (Colon Cancer)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cholinergic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
CNS-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *