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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
BETA-FRUCTOPYRANOSIDASES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-LACTUCEROL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	214.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-GLUCOSIDES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Leaf	4.0	125.0	1.74	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BROMINE	0	Leaf	30.0	80.0	0.79	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
CADMIUM	3	Leaf	0.2	5.0	1.08	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Root	0.0	2.6	1.76	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	1870.0	42232.0	1.63	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	12000.0	21000.0	0.79	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
CALCIUM	28	Root	878.0	6140.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Leaf	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.
CAOUTCHOUC	0	Latex Exudate	not available	3000.0	-1.14	Duke, 1992 *
CAOUTCHOUC	0	Plant	not available	3000.0	-0.83	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	7	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	6	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.