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
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNOSE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITYLPTEROSINS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETROSIDE-A	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLACETYLPTEROSINS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE-AMMONIA-LYASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PONASTEROSIDE-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRODELPHINIDIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	10000.0	114942.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Rhizome	95000.0	105555.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNASIN	2	Leaf	not available	1580.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
PTAQUILOSIDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PTERAQUILIN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PTERIDINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PTEROLACTAM	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PTEROSIDE-A	0	Leaf	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
Immunostimulant	6	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	3	Russell, G. B., Phytochemical resources for crop protection, N. Z. J. Technol., 2, 1986, 127-134.
Larvistat	2	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.
Laxative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Leucocyte-Depressant	1	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	6	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.