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

Common Names
Common Plantain
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
WATER 0 Seed 700000.0 1.81 *
ZINC 77 Seed 0.8 2.5 -1.21 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anemiagenic 1 *
Anesthetic 2 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 *
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 *
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
AntiADD 1 *
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaflatoxin 1 *
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 *
Antiaging 5 *
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 *
Antiamblyopic 1 *