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
FLavor	4	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatoprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypocholesterolemic	5	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypoglycemic	3	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Irritant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.