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
ALUMINUM	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-O-ALPHA-L-ARABINOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Leaf	660.0	14892.0	-0.30	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	100.0	2040.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Root	50.0	250.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	6000.0	180000.0	1.08	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH	0	Root	8900.0	44500.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
ASTRAGALIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASTRAGALIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	0.0	228.0	-0.15	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BETA-LACTUCEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Root	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BORON	4	Root	not available	20.0	-0.15	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	767.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	790.0	19900.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	410.0	2050.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	32000.0	654000.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antielastase	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	6	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesherichic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiestrogenic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antifatigue	7	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	8	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	1	Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.