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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperglycemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	23	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	12	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	10	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	8	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	10	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	3	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	7	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.