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
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	7	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	2	Duke, 1992 *
ATPase-Inhibitor	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bacteristat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bitter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchodilator	1	Duke, 1992 *