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
ANTHERAXANTHIN-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APS-SULFOTRANSFERASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARNIDIOL	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	18.0	6520.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Root	54.0	376.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	18000.0	205000.0	1.52	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASH	0	Root	11440.0	80000.0	0.36	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINIC-ACID	0	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.
ASPARAGINIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Leaf	50.0	80.0	-0.83	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	40.0	583.0	1.40	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	12.0	84.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-D-FRUCTOPYRANOSIDES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
FLavor	4	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	15	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Goitrogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	15	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	2	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *