Plant Stellaria media (Caryophyllaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Chickweed; Common Chickweed

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
INDOLE	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INDOLE-3-ACETIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INDOLE-3-ACETONITRILE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Plant	21.0	253.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
IRON-(FE2O3)	0	Plant	not available	3432.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
KILOCALORIES	0	Plant	not available	2130.0	-1.08	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LAURIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LUTEOLIN	78	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	439.0	5290.0	0.38	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM-OXIDE	0	Plant	not available	28776.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MANGANESE	14	Plant	0.4	5.3	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-BRANCHED-DOCOSANOIC ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-BRANCHED-HEPTADECANOIC ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-BRANCHED-HEXADECANOIC ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-BRANCHED-PENTACOSANOIC ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	16600.0	200000.0	0.62	Duke, 1992 *
N-HENTRIACONTANE	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Plant	4.0	47.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acarifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	9	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	3	Korhammer, S.A. and Haslinger, E. 1994. Isolation of a Biologically Active Substance from Rhizomes of Quackgrass [Elymus repens (L.) Gould]. J. Agric. Food Chem. 42: 2048-2050.
Allelopathic	2	Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *