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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Dandelion
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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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
CAPRIC-ACID 3 Pollen Or Spore *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 37000.0 639000.0 0.22 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Root 107107.0 749000.0 -1.04 *
CAROTENE 0 Plant *
CEROTIC-ACID 0 Root *
CERYL-ALCOHOL 0 Latex Exudate Perry, Lily M. 1980. Medicinal Plants of East and Southeast Asia. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusets. 620 pp.
CERYL-ALCOHOL 0 Root *
CHLORINE 7 Leaf 5300.0 22000.0 2.38 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
CHOLINE 20 Root 390.0 1120.0 -0.28 *
CHROMIUM 24 Leaf 0.2 50.0 3.63 *
CHROMIUM 24 Root 0.1 0.9 -0.38 *
CHRYSANTHEMAXANTHIN 0 Plant *
CHRYSANTHEMUMXANTHIN 0 Flower *
CIS-LUTEIN-5,6-EPOXIDE 0 Plant *
CIS-TARAXANTHIN 0 Flower *
CLUYTIANOL 0 Root *
COBALT 2 Root 1.0 8.0 -0.37 *
COPPER 12 Leaf 4.0 49.0 0.59 *
COPPER 12 Root 3.0 28.0 1.80 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 1 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 *
Acaricide 1 *
Acarifuge 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 2 *
Acetylcholinergic 1 *
Acidifier 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Acidulant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Acnegenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Additive 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aggregant 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Alcohol-Dehydrogenase-Inhibitor 1 Martindale's 29th
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 14 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allelochemic 3 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic 3 Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic 9 *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *