Plant Cephalotaxus drupacea (Cephalotaxaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Plum Yew

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
3-EPISCHELHAMMERICINE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALOTAXINE	1	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DESMETHYLCEPHALOTAXINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOMOHARRINGTONINE	12	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOHARRINGTONINE	2	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAYAFLAVONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHELHAMMERA-ALKALOID	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHELHAMMERA-ALKALOID-B-METHYL-ETHER	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticancer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimalarial	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antimelanomic	1	J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antisarcomic	1	J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antitumor (Breast)	1	J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor (Colon)	1	J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor (Lung)	1	J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Hypotensive	1	Martindale's 29th
MDR-Inhibitor	1	Qian, Q. J., Han, J. L., Yan, W. W., Yang, C. Z., Han, D. S., Shi, H., Hao, Y. 1996. A Comparative Study on the Mechanism of Homoharringtonine (HHI) and Melphalan (MEL) Resistance in K562/H20 and K562/MEL Cell Lines. Zhonghua Xueyexue Zazhi,17(7):354-356.
Tachycardic	1	Martindale's 29th