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

Common Names

Common Plantain

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

Download these results as:

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 *

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
CNS-Depressant	3	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Stimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Co-carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagen-Sparing	2	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Copper-Antagonist	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
COX-1-Inhibitor	3	Fukutake, M., Yokota, S., Kawamura, H., Iizuka, A., Amagaya, S., Fukuda, K., Komatsu, Y. 1998. Inhibitory effect of Coptidis rhizoma adn Scutellariae radix on azoxymethane-induced aberrant crypt foci formation in rat colon. Biol Pharm Bull, 21(8): 814-817
COX-2-Inhibitor	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	5	Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	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.
Dermatitigenic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.