Red Leaf / Cabbage Lettuce

Plant ID on GoBotany

Constituents

Listing on Duke's Database

Analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity of Lactuca sativa seed extract in rats

Physio-Medical Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Pharmacy BY T. J. LYLE, A.M.M. 1897

This plant is a soothing nervine, whether used as an edible or in the form of an inspissated juice. It is also soothing to the mucous membrane of the gastric and alvine canal. It is pleasant in an irritated or ulcerated stomach and is useful in an irritable dyspepsia. It is very soothing and quieting to an irritated condition of the nervous system. Insp. Lactuca may be combined with Scutelaria and Lupulin and used with good results, or the following may be used as a nervine of much value :

Articles/Studies

Beneficial Phytochemicals with Anti-Tumor Potential Revealed through Metabolic Profiling of New Red Pigmented Lettuces (Lactuca sativa L.)

Cool-cultivated red leaf lettuce accumulates cyanidin-3-O-(6"-O-malonyl)-glucoside and caffeoylmalic acid.