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
SODIUM	1	Leaf	760.0	5300.0	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Root	162.0	1130.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
STIGMASTEROL	12	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Plant	64.0	120.0	-0.21	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
SUCROSE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Root	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.
SUGARS	0	Root	14300.0	100000.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Plant	2600.0	3300.0	-0.24	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
TANNIN	35	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXACERINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXACIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXACINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXACOLIDE-1'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXACOLIDE-1'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	60.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXACOLIDE-1'-O-GLUCOSIDES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXACOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
TARAXACOSIDE	0	Root	not available	160.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXACUM-OFFICINALE-GLYCOSIDE-TA-1	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antinyctalopic	2	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiobesity	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiobesity?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antionychyotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiophthalmic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiorchitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiosteoarthritic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiosteoporotic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiosteoporotic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiototic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antioxidant	29	Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant Synergist	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiozenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipancreatitic	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antipapillomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiparkinsonian	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiparotitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipellagric	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiperiodontal	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).