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
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Musculotropic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myocardiotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nodulation-Signal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Odontolytic	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	7	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.