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
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Seed	75000.0	250000.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEPETIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	20.0	65.0	0.66	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	37000.0	74000.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOLCARBONIC-ACIDS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	180.0	600.0	-1.26	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTAGIC-ACIS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTAGONINE	0	Plant	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTAGOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTEASE	0	Seed	0.0	220.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTEOLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	2400.0	8000.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-SALTS	0	Plant	not available	4600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	57000.0	190000.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	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
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	7	Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	2	Merck 11th Edition
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteristat	1	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	4	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	4	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *