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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Dandelion
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ANTHERAXANTHIN-ESTER 0 Flower *
APIGENIN-7-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf *
APS-SULFOTRANSFERASE 0 Leaf *
ARABINOSE 0 Plant *
ARNIDIOL 1 Flower *
ARSENIC 2 Leaf Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 18.0 6520.0 0.16 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Root 54.0 376.0 -0.43 *
ASH 0 Leaf 18000.0 205000.0 1.52 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASH 0 Root 11440.0 80000.0 0.36 *
ASPARAGINIC-ACID 0 Leaf 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.
ASPARAGINIC-ACID 0 Plant *
BARIUM 0 Leaf 50.0 80.0 -0.83 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Flower *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Root *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Flower *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 40.0 583.0 1.40 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Root 12.0 84.0 0.10 *
BETA-D-FRUCTOPYRANOSIDES 0 Root *
BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASES 0 Root *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nematicide 4 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nematistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor 2 *
Nephrotoxic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroprotective 2 *
Neurotoxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter 1 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 4 *
NO-Genic 1 *
NO-Inhibitor 2 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 6 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oviposition-Stimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant 1 *
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
Parasiticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.