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
THIAMIN	31	Leaf	1.0	17.0	1.81	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMIN	31	Root	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Root	2.0	13.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Plant	58.0	330.0	1.65	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
TRANS-LUTEIN-5,6-EPOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-TARAXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINASE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	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.
VIOLAXANTHIN-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN-LINEOLEATE-LINOLENATE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-D	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
WATER	0	Leaf	356000.0	880000.0	0.36	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Root	not available	857000.0	0.57	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Leaf	21.0	230.0	0.88	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Root	0.2	1.3	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	2	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotrophic	1	Duke, 1992 *
UV-Screen	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	9	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vitamin-A-Activity	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	5	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.