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
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 *