Plant Tussilago farfara (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Coltsfoot

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
HYPERIN	14	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPEROSIDE	30	Flower	not available	2800.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
INULIN	19	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INULIN	19	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Flower	not available	370.0	1.33	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCETIN	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-FUCOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Flower	not available	1080.0	-1.25	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Flower	not available	25.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Flower	not available	69000.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Leaf	not available	82000.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEPTACOSAN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PARAFFIN	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Flower	not available	18200.0	-0.11	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
Nephrotoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Perfumery	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	12	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Prebiotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Probiotic	1	Duke, 1992 *