Plant Senecio aureus (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Liferoot; Squawweed

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
FLORIDANINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLOROSENINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OTOSENINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SENECIFOLINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SENECINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SENECIONINE	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	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
Cancer-Preventive	1	HerbalGram No. 22 - Spring 1990, page 14.
Carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	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.
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *