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
LEVULIN	0	Root	not available	187000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEVULOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-3'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-GENTIOBIOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	360.0	2500.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	225.0	1570.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Leaf	14.0	206.0	-0.12	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
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	3	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Anthelmintic	3	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Antiacne	7	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenalinic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiadrenergic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	2	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.