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	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
10-HYDROXYDECANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-HYDROXYDOCOSANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-HYDROXYHEXADECANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-HYDROXYOCTADECANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-HYDROXYDOCOSANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-HYDROXYHEXADECANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-HYDROXYICOSANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-HYDROXYOCTADECANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-HYDROXYUNDECANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
13-HYDROXYHEXADECANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-AMINO-ADIPIC-ACID	Shoot	not available	1.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXYDOCOSANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXYHEXADECANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXYTETRACOSANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-ACETOXYDOTETRACONT-3-EN-1-OL	Shoot	not available	14.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-7-DIHYDROXYICOSANOIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-7-DIMETHYLHEPTACOSANE	Shoot	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-HYDROXYHEPTANOCIC ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-HYDROXYNONANOIC ACID	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
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Xu, L. N., Yu, W. G., Tian, J. Y., Liu, Q. Y. 1990. Effect of Sodium Ferulate on Arachidonic Acid Metabolism. Yao Hsueh Hsueh Pao, 25(6): 412-416.
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
PTK-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	2	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Scabicide	1	Martindale's 29th