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

Common Names

Prickly Lettuce

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
8-DEOXYLACTUCIN	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	1091.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-LACTUCEROL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAOUTCHOUC	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPROIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	7392.0	1.32	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	352000.0	0.46	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-LACTUCEROL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMANICOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYOSCYAMINE	27	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INULIN	19	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCIN	6	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCOPICRIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	165616.0	204160.0	0.83	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	95040.0	130170.0	0.09	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
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiasthmatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	4	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinergic	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticoagulant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Anticolitic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	1	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.
Antidementia	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Anticholinesterase)	1	Martindale's 29th