Common Names
Bitter Lettuce
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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BETA-AMYRIN | 9 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CAOUTCHOUC | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CITRIC-ACID | 23 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
GERMANICOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
HYOSCYAMINE | 27 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
LACTUCERIN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
LACTUCEROLS | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
LACTUCIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
LACTUCIN | 6 | Latex Exudate | not available | 2000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
LACTUPICRIN | 2 | Latex Exudate | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
MALIC-ACID | 15 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
MANNITOL | 18 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
OXALIC-ACID | 9 | Latex Exudate | not available | 10000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
SQUALENE | 10 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
TARAXASTEROL | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
TOCOPHEROL | 93 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Psychoactive | 1 | Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp. |
Refrigerant | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Renotoxic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
Sedative | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Sialogogue | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Spermicide | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
Sunscreen | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Sweetener | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Tonic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Toxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Ubiquiot | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Ulcerogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Varroacide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Vasodilator | 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 |