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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Flower *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL 0 Root *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL-ACETATE 0 Root 280.0 *
PSI-TARAXASTEROL 0 Root *
PSI-TARAXASTEROL-ACETATE 0 Root 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.
PSI-TARAXEROL 0 Root *
QUERCETIN 176 Flower *
QUERCIMERITRIN 6 Flower *
RESIN 0 Root *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Leaf 1.0 18.0 -0.09 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Root 0.3 2.1 -0.43 *
RUBBER 0 Root 1300.0 1950.0 1.69 *
RUBIDIUM 0 Plant 19.0 50.0 2.27 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
SACCHAROSE 0 Root 11000.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SAPONIN 0 Plant *
SCOPOLETIN 44 Flower *
SELENIUM 60 Root 0.1 0.9 -0.30 *
SILICON 4 Root 0.7 4.7 -0.32 *
SITOSTEROL 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.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic 1 *
Peroxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide 33 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Phytoalexin 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Phytohormonal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
Prebiotic 1 *
Preservative 2 Merck 11th Edition
Probiotic 1 *
Probiotigenic 1 *
Proliferant 2 *
Prooxidant 4 *
Propecic 4 *
Prostaglandigenic 4 *