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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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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 *
SODIUM 1 Root 162.0 1130.0 0.01 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Pollen Or Spore *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Leaf 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 *
STRONTIUM 0 Plant 64.0 120.0 -0.21 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
SUCROSE 14 Plant *
SUCROSE 14 Root 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 *
SULFUR 14 Plant 2600.0 3300.0 -0.24 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
TANNIN 35 Root *
TARAXACERINE 0 Root *
TARAXACIN 0 Root *
TARAXACINE 0 Root *
TARAXACOLIDE-1'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Root *
TARAXACOLIDE-1'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Root 60.0 *
TARAXACOLIDE-1'-O-GLUCOSIDES 0 Plant *
TARAXACOSIDE 0 Plant 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 160.0 *
TARAXACUM-OFFICINALE-GLYCOSIDE-TA-1 0 Flower *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist 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
Copper-Chelator 1 *
Cosmetic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 1 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 2 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 4 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 2 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytoprotective 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 3 *
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Detoxicant 1 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th