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
Antiasthmatic	3	Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	8	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticanker	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	2	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticarcinomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticephalagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichoreic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *