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
MANGANESE	14	Plant	100.0	130.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	1.0	6.8	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MARGARIC-ACID	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MELISSIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
MUCILAGE	3	Root	11000.0	85000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTOLEIC-ACID	1	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOXANTHIN-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Leaf	8.0	71.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Root	4.7	33.1	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Leaf	0.4	5.6	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Root	0.3	5.6	1.98	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID	11	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONADECANOIC-ACID	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Root	not available	not available	not available	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.
OXALIC-ACID	9	Leaf	not available	1700.0	-0.43	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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	10	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antichoreic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticirrhotic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlastogen	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric	4	Duke, 1992 *