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
LACTUCIN	6	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCIN	6	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCIN	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCIN	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCIN-P-OXYPHENYLACETICACID-ESTER	0	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.
LACTUCOPICRIN	4	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCOPICRIN	4	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCOPICRIN	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUPICRIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUPICRIN-METHYL-ESTER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Leaf	390.0	8976.0	-1.16	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LEVULOSE	1	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Leaf	370.0	7548.0	-0.11	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Root	750.0	3750.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Leaf	350.0	7956.0	-1.12	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	130.0	2652.0	-0.57	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	220.0	1100.0	-0.78	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.