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

Common Names
Celandine
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Plant *
TETRAHYDROCOPTISINE 0 Fruit 1500.0 *
TYRAMINE 11 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antisecretory 1 *
Antiseptic 7 *
Antishigellic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antispasmodic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antispermigenic 2 *
Antistaphylococcic 1 *
Antisteatotic 1 *
Antistrep 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antisuperoxidogenic 1 *
Antisyncopic 1 *
Antisyphilitic 1 *
Antithyrotoxic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitrachomic 1 *
Antitrypanosomic 2 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antitubercular 3 *
Antitumor 6 Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Antitumor (brain) 1 Werbach & Murray, 1994.
Antitussive 3 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antiulcer 1 *
Antivaginitic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.