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.
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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
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Mutagenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Myoparalytic	2	De Smet, P.A.G.M., Keller, K., Hansel, R. and Chandler, R.F., eds. 1993. Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs 2. Springr-Verlag, Berlin. 348pp.
Myorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Neuroinhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	4	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Pesticide	10	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition