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
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	not available	12100.0	-0.16	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CALCIUM	28	Shoot	400.0	1110.0	-0.99	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXIDE	0	Plant	not available	18480.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	49966.0	602000.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
CARBONIC-ANHYDRASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CARBOXYLIC-ACIDS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CERYL-CEROTATE	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.
CHLORINE	7	Plant	not available	12936.0	1.50	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Plant	0.1	1.1	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Plant	1.0	12.1	-0.08	Duke, 1992 *
COUMARINS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANE-1-10-DIOIC ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIETHYLENEGLYCOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DOCOSAN-1-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	83.0	2000.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	3984.0	48000.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	48000.0	59000.0	-1.09	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiinsomniac	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomnic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antikeratitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antikeshan	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiketotic	1	Merck 11th Edition
AntiLegionella	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric	2	Martindale's 28th
Antileukemic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary*, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.