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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiasthmatic	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiasthmatic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiataxic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	21	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	6	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *