Plant Ailanthus altissima (Simaroubaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Stinktree; Tree Of Heaven

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
1-(1',2'-DIHYDROXYETHYL)-4-METHOXY-BETA-CARBOLINE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-(2'-HYDROXYETHYL)-4-METHOXY-BETA-CARBOLINE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-ACETYL-4-METHOXY-BETA-CARBOLINE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-HYDROXYCANTHIN-6-ONE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-METHOXYCANTHIN-6-ONE	3	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-METHOXYCANTHIN-6-ONE-3N-OXIDE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,6-DIMETHOXY-P-BENZOQUINONE	3	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,6-DIMETHOXYQUINONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLAMAROLIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AILANTHIIN	0	Plant	not available	49600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AILANTHINONE	8	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AILANTHONE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMAROLIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CANTHIN-6-ONE	8	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CANTHIN-6-ONE-3-OXIDE	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOLINE-1-CARBOXYLATE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Nephrotoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
Pesticide	15	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytohormonal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	1	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.