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Plant Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Dandelion
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigoiter 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic 2 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatoadenomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 11 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.