Plant Chenopodium album (Chenopodiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Lambsquarter

How this plant is used

Food

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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
ALANINE	3	Plant	3220.0	20511.0	1.10	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Plant	2530.0	16116.0	0.75	Duke, 1992 *
ASCARIDOLE	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Plant	600.0	9000.0	1.52	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Plant	4310.0	27457.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	71.0	316.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ECDYSTERONE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Leaf	not available	12200.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	3090.0	33800.0	1.05	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	not available	3000.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	73000.0	500000.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
CHENOPODINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	not available	5.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Plant	890.0	5669.0	1.76	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	8000.0	50960.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	55000.0	85000.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	21000.0	217000.0	0.69	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
Emetic	2	Martindale's 29th
Emmenagogue	1	Wealth of India.
Epidermal-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Fungistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatoprotective	8	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *