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Plant Chelidonium majus (Papaveraceae)

Common Names
Celandine
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
CNS-Depressant 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
CNS-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Collyrium 1 Duke, 1992 *
Convulsant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Corrosive 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Counterirritant 1 Merck 11th Edition
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Curaroid 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Digestive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 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.
DNA-Intercalator 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.
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Emetic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 1 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.
FLavor 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Fungistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.