Plant Isatis tinctoria (Brassicaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Dyer's Woad

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
1-SULFO-3-INDOLYLMETHYLGLUCOSINOLATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-BUTENYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Root	not available	132.0	5.38	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-GALACTAN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	not available	16300.0	0.97	Duke, 1992 *
CICEROSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Root	not available	10.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
ERUCIC-ACID	2	Seed	26460.0	80640.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	126000.0	384000.0	0.62	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-GALACTAN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INDICAN	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Root	not available	150.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
ISATAN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	23940.0	72960.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	30240.0	92160.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	not available	4410.0	0.98	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	not available	181.0	1.62	Duke, 1992 *
MANNEOTETROSE	0	Plant	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
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	2	Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dermatophyticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.