Plant Verbascum thapsus (Scrophulariaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Mullein; Velvetplant; Flannelleaf; Flannelplant; Great Mullein

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Download these results as:

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
6-O-(ALPHA-L-ISOFERULOYL)-RHAMNOPYRANOSYL)-CATALPOL	0	Plant	not available	19.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-O-(P-HYDROXY-BENZOYL)-AJUGOL	0	Plant	not available	4.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-O-BETA-XYLOXYL-AUCUBIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-O-SYRINGOYL-AJUGOL	0	Plant	not available	0.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-O-VANILLOYL-AJUGOL	0	Plant	not available	19.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AJUGOL	0	Plant	not available	75.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AJUGOL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Leaf	not available	1090.0	0.39	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ARABINOGALACTAN	6	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	16000.0	1.16	Duke, 1992 *
ARENARIOSIDE	2	Plant	not available	22.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	341.0	776.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	37840.0	86000.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
AUCUBIN	20	Leaf	not available	100.0	-1.13	Duke, 1992 *
AUCUBIN	20	Plant	not available	150.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
AUCUBIN	20	Root	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
Flatulent	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	4	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemorrhagic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatoprotective	8	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypertensive	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic	1	Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypocholesterolemic	14	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.