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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
3,4-DIHYDROAUCUBIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6'-0-BETA-GLUCOSYLAUCUBIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
9-HYDROXY-CIS-11-OCTADECANOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOSIDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADENINE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Plant	not available	1000.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIN	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	18600.0	62000.0	0.42	Duke, 1992 *
ASPERULOSIDE	9	Flower	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AUCUBIN	20	Leaf	not available	10000.0	1.30	Duke, 1992 *
AUCUBIN	20	Plant	not available	3700.0	2.96	Duke, 1992 *
AUCUBIN	20	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BAICALEIN	50	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BAICALIN	40	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antimanic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine	3	Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic	15	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Antimyalgic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antineoplastic	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antinephritic	4	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antinephrolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuralgic	2	Duke, 1992 *