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
Antiphotophobic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antipityriasic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplaque	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplasmodial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplatelet	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antipodriac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiporphyric	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiproliferant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatitic	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiprotozoal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriac	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiradicular	12	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antirheumatic	1	Duke, 1992 *