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Plant Cichorium endivia (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Endive; Escarole
How this plant is used
Food
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
SELENIUM 60 Leaf 0.0 0.0 -0.38 Duke, 1992 *
SERINE 1 Leaf 490.0 7890.0 -0.65 Duke, 1992 *
SFA 0 Leaf 480.0 7729.0 -0.30 Duke, 1992 *
SILVER 3 Leaf 0.2 0.2 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Leaf 179.0 4560.0 0.16 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Leaf 20.0 322.0 -0.41 Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM 0 Shoot 140.0 240.0 -0.76 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Shoot 740.0 912.0 -0.68 Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL 2 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 0.7 14.0 1.19 Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE 4 Leaf 500.0 8051.0 -0.58 Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM 0 Leaf 1.0 1.2 -0.69 Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Leaf 50.0 805.0 -2.26 Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE 8 Leaf 400.0 6441.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
VALINE 3 Leaf 630.0 10145.0 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6 0 Leaf 0.2 3.2 -1.16 Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Leaf 934000.0 943800.0 0.68 Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Leaf 8.0 146.0 0.37 Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM 0 Leaf 4.0 4.8 -0.53 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
Antigonadotropic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic 1 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic? 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic 5 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.