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
NONANE-1-9-DIOIC ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-GALACTOSYL-6-8-DI-C-GALACTOSYL-4'-5'-DIHYDROXYFLAVONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSANOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECATETRAENIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
OXALIC-ACID	9	Shoot	2950.0	4330.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTACOSAN-1-OL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECAN-1-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTANE-1-5-DIOIC ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	372.0	4480.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS-OXIDE	0	Plant	not available	9240.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	697.0	8400.0	-0.93	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-OXIDE-(K2O)	0	Plant	not available	48312.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROPANE-1-3-DIOIC ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	18011.0	217000.0	0.36	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	178000.0	-0.50	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Plant	0.1	1.3	-0.70	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