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
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENIPOSIDIC-ACID	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCORAPHENINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Seed	30000.0	100000.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
HISPIDULIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INDICAINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INVERTIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	5.0	18.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
L-FRUCTOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNOCERIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	25000.0	50000.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	900.0	1800.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
LOLIOLID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	318.0	1060.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	0.5	1.6	-0.65	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
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P21-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	23	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phytoalexin	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.