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
ALKALOIDS	0	Plant	2500.0	22000.0	0.17	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALLOCRYPTOPINE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HOMOCHELIDONINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERBERINE	130	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELAMIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERITINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERYTHRINE	33	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIDAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIDONIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIDONINE	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIDONIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELILUTINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIRUBINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPTISINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CORYSAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROSANGUINARINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	not available	130.0	-0.73	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
Respirastimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor	1	Merck 11th Edition
RNA-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
RT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Secretogogue	1	Martindale's 29th
Sedative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Sialogogue	2	Martindale's 29th
Soporific	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spasmogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Stomachic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sympatholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sympathomimetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tachycardic	1	Martindale's 29th
Tetanic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	1	Fang, S. D., Wang, L. K., Hect, S. M. 1993. Inhibitors of DNA Topoisomerase I Isolated From the Roots of Zanthoxylum nitidum. J Org Chem, 58: 5025-5027.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Kobayashi, Y, Yamashita, Y., Fujii, N., Takaboshi, K., Kawakami, T., Kawamura, M., Mizukami, T., Nakano, H. 1995. Inhibitors of DNA Topoisomerase I and II Isolated From the Coptis Rhizomes. Planta Medica, 61: 414-418.
Toxic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Trichomonicide	2	Martindale's 29th
Trypanocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *