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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antimenopausal	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimigraine	3	Martindale's 29th
Antimutagenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyocarditic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinauseant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antinephritic	2	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antinesidioblastosic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antineuralgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuramidase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineurasthenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuropathic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antinitrosic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antinociceptive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antionychyotic	1	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
Antiophidic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiorchitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiosteoarthritic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.