Plant Comptonia peregrina (Myricaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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
BETULIN	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN	13	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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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
Anticarcinomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	1	Recio, M., et al. 1994. Investigations on the Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Triterpenoids from Diospyros leucomelas*. Planta Medica, 61: 9.
Antitumor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Lugemwa, F.N., Huang, F-Y., Bentley, M.D., Mendel, M.J., and Alford, A.R. 1990. A Heliothis zea Antifeedant from the Abundant Birchbark Triterpene Betulin. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38(2): 493-494.
Cytotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Huang, C., Tunon, H., Bohlin, L. 1995. Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Isolated from Menyanthes trifoliata L. Yao Hsueh Hsueh Pao, 30(8): 621-626.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *