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
2-ACETYL-2-DEMETHYLCOLCHICINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-DEMETHYLCOLCHICINE	1	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-DESMETHYLDEACETYLCOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXY-6-METHOXYBENZOIC-ACID	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-ACETYL-3-DEMETHYLCOLCHICINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-DEMETHYL-BETA-LUMICOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-DEMETHYL-GAMMA-LUMICOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-DEMETHYLCOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-DESMETHYLDEMECOLCINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-COLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHOXY-SALICYLIC-ACID	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LUMICOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AUTUMNALINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-LUMICOLCHICINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIDONIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLCHAMINE	5	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLCHICENE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLCHICERINE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	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
Estrogenic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Expectorant	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypertensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 158.
Hypotensive	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	2	Mitchell, J. and Rook, A.J. 1923. Botanical Dermatology: plants and plant products injurious to the skin. Vancouver: Greengrass, 1979. xiii, 787 p.: ill.
Keratolytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *