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
CAPRIC-ACID	3	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	37000.0	639000.0	0.22	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	107107.0	749000.0	-1.04	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEROTIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Perry, Lily M. 1980. Medicinal Plants of East and Southeast Asia. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusets. 620 pp.
CERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE	7	Leaf	5300.0	22000.0	2.38	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
CHOLINE	20	Root	390.0	1120.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Leaf	0.2	50.0	3.63	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Root	0.1	0.9	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSANTHEMAXANTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSANTHEMUMXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LUTEIN-5,6-EPOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-TARAXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CLUYTIANOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Root	1.0	8.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Leaf	4.0	49.0	0.59	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Root	3.0	28.0	1.80	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
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 *