Plant Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pokeweed

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
PHYTOLACCOGENIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POKEBERRYGENIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POKEWEED-ANTIVIRAL-PROTEIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PREBETANINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Shoot	26000.0	311000.0	0.90	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-L-ARABINO-7-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Shoot	3.0	39.0	2.00	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Shoot	1.0	10.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Shoot	not available	916000.0	0.83	Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticephalagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticlimacteric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticold	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticomplement	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Anticonvulsant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticoronary	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCrohn's	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiCTS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidecubitic	3	Martindale's 28th
Antideliriant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidementia	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidermatitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidiabetic	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *