Plant Colchicum autumnale (Liliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Autumn Crocus; Meadow Saffron

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
COLCHICINE	44	Tuber	800.0	12300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLCHIFOLINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEMECOLCEINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEMECOLCINE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-LUMICOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-ACETYLDEMECOLCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-DEACETYL-N-METHYLCOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-FORMYL-N-DEACETYLCOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYLDESACETYLCOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-ACETYLCOLCHICEINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-DEMETHYL-N-DEACETYLCOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Tuber	not available	210000.0	-1.08	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antidandruff	1	A.L.L. Hunting. Encyclopedia of Shampoo Ingredients. Micelle Press, Cranford NJ. 467 pp.
Antidermatitic	2	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidermatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Iodine)	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antieczemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiestrogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiflu	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiichthyosic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiinflammatory	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	3	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antimalarial	1	Martindale's 28th
Antimelanomic	2	J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antimeningitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antimetastatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimitotic	2	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Antimutagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.