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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
RHAMNOSE 0 Plant *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed *
SACCHAROSE 0 Plant *
SALICYLIC-ACID 34 Plant 1.0 -0.69 *
SCUTELLARIN 0 Leaf *
SELENIUM 60 Seed 0.3 1.0 -0.25 *
SILICON 4 Seed 3.0 8.2 -1.14 *
SITOSTEROL 0 Plant *
SODIUM 1 Seed 180.0 600.0 0.24 *
SORBITOL 11 Plant 15000.0 *
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Plant *
SULFORAPHENE 0 Plant *
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 Plant *
SYRINGIN 9 Plant *
TANNIN 35 Plant 40000.0 57000.0 -0.39 *
THIAMINE 0 Seed *
TYROSINE 8 Plant *
TYROSOL 1 Plant *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipneumonic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodagric 1 *
Antipodriac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipoliomyelitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprolactin 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 5 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiproliferative 3 Huang, H-C., Wang, H-R., and Hsieh, L-M. 1993. Antiproliferative effect of baicalein, a flavonoid from a Chinese herb, on vascular smooth muscle cell. European J. of Pharmacology 251: 91-93, 1994.
Antiprostaglandin 1 *
Antiprostatitic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsoriac 4 Martindale's 28th
Antipyretic 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 12 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 1 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.
Antiretinopathic 1 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
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antiretroviral 1 *
Antirheumatic 7 Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.