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
INULIN	19	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INULIN	19	Root	42900.0	300000.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
IODINE	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
IRON	6	Leaf	31.0	900.0	1.36	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Root	14.0	96.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN	11	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Bud	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Leaf	440.0	3130.0	0.18	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
KILOCALORIES	0	Root	not available	2650.0	-1.58	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
L-INOSITOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTUCEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Leaf	0.8	10.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Root	0.1	13.6	2.75	Duke, 1992 *
LECITHIN	20	Flower	not available	29700.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LECITHIN	20	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEVULIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metal-Chelator	3	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metal-Chelator (Copper)	1	Seidel, V., Verholle, M., Malard, Y., Tillequin, F., Fruchart, J-C., Duriez, P., Bailleul, F., Teissier, E. 2000. Phenylpropanoids from Ballota nigra L. Inhibit in vitro LDL Peroxidation. Phytotherapy Research, 14(2): 93-98.
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
MMP-9-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Mosquitocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mucogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Musculotropic	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *