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

Common Names

Cornflower, Bachelor's Button

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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PELARGONIDIN-3-(6'-SUCCINYL-GLUCOSIDE)-5-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIN	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
POLYENES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
POLYGALACTURONIC-ACIDS	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
POLYYNES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
POPULNIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PROTEIN	0	Plant	194000.0	254000.0	0.66	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PROTOCYANIN	0	Flower	not available	11.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETOL	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
QUERCIMERETRIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCIMERETRIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
QUERCIMERITRIN	6	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
RUTOSIDE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SCOPOLETIN	44	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SUCCINYLCYANIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
TANNIN	35	Flower	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.

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