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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
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Flower *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant *
P-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID 0 Plant *
P-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID 0 Root *
P-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID 0 Shoot 10.0 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Pollen Or Spore *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root *
PECTIN 24 Root 17160.0 120000.0 -0.14 *
PECTINS 0 Root 78000.0 *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Pollen Or Spore *
PHLOBAPHENE 0 Root *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 590.0 5268.0 0.05 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Root 518.0 3620.0 0.02 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 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.
POLLINASTANOL 0 Plant *
POLLINASTANOL 0 Pollen Or Spore *
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 3970.0 30000.0 -0.02 *
POTASSIUM 14 Root 1716.0 12000.0 -0.28 *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 27000.0 321000.0 1.09 *
PROTEIN 0 Root 23595.0 165000.0 0.52 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiseborrheic 2 *
Antisecretory 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiseptic 13 Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling 1 Planta Medica, 56(6): 681, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 1 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
Antispasmodic 14 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antisprue 1 *
Antistaphylococcic 3 *
Antisteatotic 1 *
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 1 *
Antistress 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 3 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
Antisunburn 2 *
Antisyndrome-X 6 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
Antithiamin 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.