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
Antimetastatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimicrobial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimitogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimorphinic	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.
AntiMS	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antimyocarditic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antimyocontractant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antineuroblastomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineurogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuroleptic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antinitrosaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoporotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant	9	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 64.
Antipancreatitic	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiparkinsonian	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontal	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).