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
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL-ACETATE	0	Root	not available	280.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSI-TARAXASTEROL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSI-TARAXASTEROL-ACETATE	0	Root	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.
PSI-TARAXEROL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCIMERITRIN	6	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	1.0	18.0	-0.09	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Root	0.3	2.1	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
RUBBER	0	Root	1300.0	1950.0	1.69	Duke, 1992 *
RUBIDIUM	0	Plant	19.0	50.0	2.27	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
SACCHAROSE	0	Root	not available	11000.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SAPONIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLETIN	44	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Root	0.1	0.9	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Root	0.7	4.7	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL	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.

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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
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 *