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
Antihypertensive	4	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antihyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiinflammatory	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiischemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiketotic	1	Merck 11th Edition
AntiLegionella	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 225.
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
Antimaculitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimelanogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic	2	Duke, 1992 *