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Common Names
Common Plantain
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| 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 * |
| 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. |