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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AntiMeniere's | 1 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| Antimenopausal | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimenorrhagic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antimetastatic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimigraine | 4 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antimitral-valve-prolapse | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiMS | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimutagenic | 6 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235. |
| Antimyalgic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antimyocarditic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antinauseant | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antinephritic | 2 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
| Antinephrolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antineuralgic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antineuramidase | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antineurasthenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antineuritic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antineuropathic | 2 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antineurotic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| AntiNF-kB | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |