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
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).