Plant Plantago psyllium (Plantaginaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Psyllium

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
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Seed	not available	603000.0	0.42	Duke, 1992 *
INDICAIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INVERTASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Hull Husk	not available	183.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	4.0	20.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Seed	not available	2350.0	-1.96	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	111.0	510.0	-0.96	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	0.4	1.6	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
MUCIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Seed	65400.0	400000.0	1.28	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	not available	0.0	-1.28	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	1865.0	3528.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Hull Husk	not available	578.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	137.0	630.0	-1.25	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTAGONINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTARENALOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	1768.0	8110.0	-0.39	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
Colorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Antagonist	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Cosmetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Demulcent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th