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Plant Cytisus scoparius (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Scotch Broom
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Anticapillary-Fragility 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic 1 Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 2 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract 2 Shin*, K.H., Chung, M.S., Chae, Y.J., Yoon, K.Y., Cho, T.S. 1992. A survey for aldose reductase inhibition of herbal medicines. Fitoterapia 64(2): 130, 1993.
Anticlimacteric 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Anticolitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplementary 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoronary 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiCrohn's 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticystitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidermatitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Manganese) 1 Martindale's 29th
Antidysenteric 2 HerbalGram No. 24, page 37.
Antieczemic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.