Plant Chelidonium majus (Papaveraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Celandine

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
ERGOSTEROL	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	466000.0	1.06	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HOMOCHELIDONINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTAMINE	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYCHELIDONINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYSANGUINARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-SPARTEINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNOFLORINE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHOXYCHELIDONINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-AMINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID	11	Plant	not available	340.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
NONACOSANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYCHELIDONINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYSANGUINARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOPINE	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANGUINARINE	48	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINASTEROL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STYLOPINE	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
Myorelaxant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Myostimulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Nematicide	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neurotoxic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Occulotensive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Odontolytic	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Perfumery	1	Merck 11th Edition
Pesticide	12	Duke, 1992 *
Phototoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Preservative	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Huang, C. G., Chu, Z. L., Yang, Z. M. 1991. Effect of Berberine on Synthesis of Platelet TXA2 and Plasma PGI2 in Rabbits. Chung-Kuo Yao Li Hsueh Pao, 12(6): 526-528.
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Radioprotective	1	Martindale's 28th
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Respiradepressant	1	Martindale's 28th
Respirainhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *