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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Plantago major (Plantaginaceae)

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

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
RHAMNOSE 0 Plant *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed *
SACCHAROSE 0 Plant *
SALICYLIC-ACID 34 Plant 1.0 -0.69 *
SCUTELLARIN 0 Leaf *
SELENIUM 60 Seed 0.3 1.0 -0.25 *
SILICON 4 Seed 3.0 8.2 -1.14 *
SITOSTEROL 0 Plant *
SODIUM 1 Seed 180.0 600.0 0.24 *
SORBITOL 11 Plant 15000.0 *
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Plant *
SULFORAPHENE 0 Plant *
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 Plant *
SYRINGIN 9 Plant *
TANNIN 35 Plant 40000.0 57000.0 -0.39 *
THIAMINE 0 Seed *
TYROSINE 8 Plant *
TYROSOL 1 Plant *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Colon) 3 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 *
Anticanker 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticariogenic 3 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 7 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 2 *
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 *
AntiCFS 3 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholestatic 1 Shukla, B., Visen, P.K.S., Patnaik, G.K., Tripathi, S.C., Srimal, R.C., Dayal, R., and Dobhal, P.C. Hepatoprotective Activity in the Rat of Ursolic Acid Isolated from Eucalyptus Hybrid. Phytotherapy Research 6: 74-79, 1992.
Anticholinergic 1 *
Antichoreic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic 2 *