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

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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
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	353320.0	803000.0	1.52	Duke, 1992 *
CATALPOL	3	Plant	not available	50.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATALPOL	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATALPOL-6-O-(ALPHA-L-(3''-O-CAFFEOYL)-RHAMNOPYRANOSYL	0	Plant	not available	21.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Leaf	0.6	1.4	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Leaf	6.0	12.8	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
COUMARIN	57	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CROCETIN	10	Flower	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
DEHYDRO-DICONIFERYL-GLUCOSIDE-D	0	Plant	not available	0.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDRO-DICONIFERYL-GLUCOSIDE-E	0	Plant	not available	1.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDRO-DICONIFERYL-GLUCOSIDE-F	0	Plant	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDRO-DICONIFERYL-GLUCOSIDE-G	0	Plant	not available	2.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERGOSTEROL-PEROXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	5720.0	13000.0	-0.87	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	35000.0	271000.0	0.03	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	not available	111000.0	-0.62	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Leaf	not available	111000.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Leaf	not available	350000.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
FORSYTHOSIDE-B	2	Plant	not available	4.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUNGISTEROL	0	Seed Oil	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
NF-kB-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Pediculicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	16	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
ProHLDL	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.