Plant Abies alba (Pinaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Silver-Fir

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
ABIETIC-ACID	3	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ABIETINOLIC-ACID	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ABIETOSPIRONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-&-BETA-ABIETINOLIC-ACID	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-FENCHENE	0	Leaf	50.0	70.0	4.43	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Leaf	5.0	7.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Plant	590.0	826.0	0.10	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-FENCHENE	0	Leaf	5.0	7.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Plant	32.0	46.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf	218.0	304.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYLENE	0	Leaf	1.0	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf	528.0	738.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOFENCHENE	0	Leaf	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECYL-ALDEHYDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-3-CARENE	8	Leaf	2.0	4.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-3-CARENE	8	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Leaf	2500.0	3500.0	-0.71	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
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Expectorant	4	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	11	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	6	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	2	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	4	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 158.
Hypothermic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	9	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	2	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	8	Duke, 1992 *
Keratolytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *