Plant Symphytum officinale (Boraginaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Comfrey

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
STIGMASTEROL	12	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS	0	Leaf	9900.0	90000.0	0.36	Duke, 1992 *
SYMLANDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYMPHYTINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYMPHYTOCYNOGLOSSIN	0	Root	not available	21.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	80000.0	90000.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Root	not available	1.2	-0.49	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE	0	Leaf	0.2	2.2	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Leaf	0.7	6.7	-1.07	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Root	not available	6.7	-0.99	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
VIRIDIFLORINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Leaf	not available	890000.0	0.41	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Root	not available	862000.0	0.61	Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Root	not available	2.8	-0.94	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Cytotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent	2	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	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.
Detoxicant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diagnostic	1	Martindale's 28th
Diuretic	9	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.