Plant Cichorium intybus (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Chicory; Witloof; Succory

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
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	175100.0	875500.0	0.58	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CATECHOL	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHOL-TANNINS	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Root	not available	50000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHICORIC-ACID	10	Leaf	not available	1100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHICORIC-ACID	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Root	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CHRYSANTHEMIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CICHORALEXIN	0	Leaf	not available	146.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CICHORIC-ACID	14	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CICHORIIN	3	Flower	1000.0	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CICHORIIN	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CICHORIIN	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CICHORIIN	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CICHORIOLIDE-A	0	Root	not available	2.0	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
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).
Flatugenic	2	Martindale's 29th
FLavor	8	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	14	Tomas-Barberan, F., Iniesta-Sanmartin, E., Tomas-Lorente, F., and Rumbero, A. 1989. Antimicrobial Phenolic Compounds From Three Spanish Helichrysum Species. Phytochemistry. 29(4): 1093-1095. 1990.
Fungistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemorrhagic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostat	6	Martindale's 29th
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	18	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *