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
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
Protististat	1	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Purgative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	3	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
RNA-Inhibitor	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 275.
Secretogogue	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.
Sedative	5	Duke, 1992 *
Serotoninergic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialidase-Inhibitor	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-93.
Sodium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Spermigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Succinoxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.