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
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	not available	3600.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
SENKIRKINE	1	Plant	not available	75.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Flower	not available	130.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Flower	not available	6000.0	-1.39	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	not available	170000.0	0.73	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TUSSILAGINE	1	Plant	not available	75.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URONIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URONIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	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 *