Plant Lactuca sativa (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Lettuce

How this plant is used

Food

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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
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Leaf	90.0	1500.0	-1.54	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Leaf	320.0	5333.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Leaf	700.0	11667.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
VANADIUM	16	Leaf	0.3	20.3	2.25	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Leaf	0.6	9.2	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-E	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-G	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-K	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Leaf	920000.0	971000.0	0.82	Duke, 1992 *
YTTERBIUM	0	Leaf	0.0	0.9	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
YTTRIUM	0	Leaf	0.4	8.7	-0.98	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Leaf	2.7	974.0	5.45	Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM	0	Leaf	0.4	87.0	0.77	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
Antischizophrenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiscoliotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseborrheic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	10	Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisialogogue	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antisickling	2	Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic	12	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.
Antispasmophilic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiSpina-Bifida	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistaphylococcic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antisteatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.