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Common Names
Comfrey
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Root | not available | 2111.0 | -0.25 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Leaf | 1870.0 | 17000.0 | -0.59 | Duke, 1992 * |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Root | not available | 15900.0 | 0.01 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Leaf | 15400.0 | 140000.0 | -0.72 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Root | not available | 94000.0 | -0.27 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| PYROCATECHINS | 0 | Root | not available | 24000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| REDUCING-SUGARS | 0 | Root | not available | 51500.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RESIN | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Leaf | 0.8 | 7.2 | -0.14 | Duke, 1992 * |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Root | not available | 7.2 | 0.68 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| ROSMARINIC-ACID | 57 | Leaf | not available | 5000.0 | -0.34 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SELENIUM | 60 | Leaf | 0.1 | 1.2 | -0.29 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SELENIUM | 60 | Root | not available | 5.7 | 0.04 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| SILICIC-ACID | 1 | Leaf | not available | 40000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICIC-ACID | 1 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICON | 4 | Leaf | 1.0 | 9.0 | -0.39 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICON | 4 | Root | not available | 35.0 | -0.18 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| SITOSTEROL | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Leaf | 12.0 | 110.0 | -0.63 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Root | not available | 3510.0 | 1.12 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| ABeta-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACE-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Acetylcholinergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Acidulant | 1 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Adenylate-Cyclase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Aggregant | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor | 4 | Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110. |
| Allelochemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Allergenic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Amphiglycemic? | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Analeptic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Analgesic | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Androgenic? | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anorexic | 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. |
| Anthelmintic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiacne | 5 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antiacrodermatitic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiacrodynic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiadenoviral | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207. |