Plant Plantago major (Plantaginaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Common Plantain

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
RHAMNOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SACCHAROSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Plant	not available	1.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
SCUTELLARIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Seed	0.3	1.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Seed	3.0	8.2	-1.14	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Seed	180.0	600.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
SORBITOL	11	Plant	not available	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SULFORAPHENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	40000.0	57000.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSOL	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Plant	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
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Anthelmintic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacne	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiADD	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaflatoxin	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	2	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
Antiaggregant	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	3	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic	9	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialopecic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *