Plant Cytisus scoparius (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Scotch Broom

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
L(+)-TYROSINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-DOPA	25	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	30960.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
LUPANINE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-4'-GLYCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYLOXYTYRAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ORIENTIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYTYRAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	325000.0	0.81	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAROTHAMNINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPARIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPARTEINE	21	Plant	2500.0	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXANTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN	18	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL	3	Flower	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
Antiaging	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antialopecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiasthmatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 163.1999.
Antibacterial	6	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibradiquinic	1	Fitoterapia No.61: 277, 1990.
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *