Plant Portulaca oleracea (Portulacaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Purslane; Verdolaga

How this plant is used

Food

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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
MANGANESE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Herb	90.0	2814.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MONOGALACTOSYLDIACYLGLYCEROL	0	Herb	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	not available	4200.0	-1.51	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Herb	7.0	140.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Herb	5.0	79.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
NOREPINEPHRINE	0	Plant	not available	2500.0	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Herb	16.0	2160.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	49935.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
OLERACIN-I	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLERACIN-II	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OMEGA-3'S	0	Plant	not available	30000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALATES	0	Shoot	not available	13100.0	not available	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
OXALIC-ACID	9	Plant	1679.0	16790.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Herb	616.0	18966.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Herb	140.0	2940.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Herb	580.0	11500.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-ETHANOLAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
5-HETE-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acarifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adjuvant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Adrenergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic	1	Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Amylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *