Plant Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Dandelion

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
INULIN	19	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INULIN	19	Root	42900.0	300000.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
IODINE	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
IRON	6	Leaf	31.0	900.0	1.36	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Root	14.0	96.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN	11	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Bud	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Leaf	440.0	3130.0	0.18	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
KILOCALORIES	0	Root	not available	2650.0	-1.58	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
L-INOSITOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Leaf	0.8	10.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Root	0.1	13.6	2.75	Duke, 1992 *
LECITHIN	20	Flower	not available	29700.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LECITHIN	20	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEVULIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acarifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *