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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Cnicus benedictus (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Blessed Thistle
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BENEDICTIN 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
BENEDICTINE 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BENEDICTINOLIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
BENZALDEHYDE 24 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
BENZOIC-ACID 20 Plant Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Plant 18.0 133.0 -0.01 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed 243.0 -0.54 Jim Duke's personal files.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
CALCIUM 28 Plant 1490.0 11200.0 -0.26 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
CAR-3-ENE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 101080.0 760000.0 0.56 *
CERYL-ALCOHOL 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CHROMIUM 24 Plant 0.2 1.8 -0.70 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE 60 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
CINNAMALDEHYDE 60 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
CINNAMALDEHYDE 60 Plant Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CINNAMALDEHYDE 60 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRAL 53 Essential Oil Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Angiogenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 *
Anorexic 2 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 1 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase 1 *
Antiacne 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 4 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergenic 1 *
Antiallergic 8 *
Antialopecic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran 5 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 1 L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.