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
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal	2	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatotoxic	7	Okuda, T., Yoshida, T., and Hatano, T. Antioxidant Effects of Tannins and Related Polyphenols. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.7 p.93.
Antiherpetic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocysteine	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.