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.
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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.