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
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Leaf	8.0	10.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
L-ALPHA-PINENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-BORNYL-ACETATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-LIMONENE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAEVOPIMARIC-ACID	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURALDEHYDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Leaf	855.0	1197.0	0.81	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALTOL	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Leaf	25.0	35.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
NEOABIETINIC-ACID	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf	25.0	35.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
PALUSTRINIC-ACID	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Leaf	5.0	7.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANTENE	0	Leaf	45.0	63.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Leaf	28.0	38.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
TRICYCLENE	0	Leaf	45.0	63.0	0.55	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 *