Plant Pteridium aquilinum (Dennstaedtiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bracken; Bracken Fern

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-CAFFEYL-TARTARIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Rhizome	not available	1800.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	1000.0	11494.0	-0.90	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Rhizome	12000.0	13333.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	14000.0	160919.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Rhizome	200000.0	222222.0	0.49	Duke, 1992 *
FUCOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTURONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCURONIC-ACID	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Leaf	not available	560.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IODINE	12	Leaf	not available	0.9	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCROTONYLPTEROSINS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-0-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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
Catabolic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	5	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	7	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Clastogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Co-carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagen-Sparing	2	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cyanogenic	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.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	2	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.