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
Cardiotonic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Cardiovascular	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.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catechol-O-Methyltransferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cathartic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	2	Fitoterapia No.5-1986.
CNS-Active	1	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.
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Curaroid	1	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.
Cyclooxygenase-Activator	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	4	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)