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
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.

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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
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Vasodilator	6	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	6	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *