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
LEVULIN	0	Root	not available	187000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEVULOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-3'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-GENTIOBIOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	360.0	2500.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	225.0	1570.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Leaf	14.0	206.0	-0.12	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 *