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
Antitumor (Colon)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Mouth)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	8	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiulcer	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiUTI	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaricose	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *