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
Insulinotonic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Irritant	7	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Lachrymatory	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leucocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipase-Inhibitor	4	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Lipolytic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lipotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Litholytic	1	Martindale's 29th
Memorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Molluscicide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Mutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Mydriatic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Myocardiocontractant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Myocardiodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myocontractant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myodepressant	1	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)