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
Respirastimulant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Rodenticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Secretogogue	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Sedative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	3	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Sweetener	1	Martindale's 28th
Taenifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Thymoprotective	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Thyrotropic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Uricosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Vasodilator	3	Duke, 1992 *