Plant Cnicus benedictus (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Blessed Thistle

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
2-ACETYLNORTRACHELOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ABSINTHIN	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-AMYRENONE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-AMYRIN-ACETATE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
ALPHA-AMYRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
ALUMINUM	5	Plant	11.3	85.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
AMYRENONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
ANABSINTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-7-GLYCOSIDE	4	Plant	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.
ARCTIGENIN	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARCTIIN	4	Seed	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.
ARTEMISIFOLIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ARTEMISIIFOLIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Plant	4.0	30.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Plant	17689.0	133000.0	0.22	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	41000.0	-0.21	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASTRAGALIN	7	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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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
Antitumor (Thyroid)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	5	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiurease	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antivaricose	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	15	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	6	Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.