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
LEVULIN	0	Root	not available	187000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEVULOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-3'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-GENTIOBIOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	360.0	2500.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	225.0	1570.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Leaf	14.0	206.0	-0.12	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 *