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Plant Lactuca scariola (Asteraceae)

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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Chemopreventive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive (Breast Cancer) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive (Colon Cancer) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Circulotonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
CNS-Paralytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Stimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cytotoxic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Emetic 1 Martindale's 28th
Estrogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 1 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic 1 Martindale's 29th