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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antipharyngitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplaque	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplasmodial	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriac	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipyretic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiradicular	4	Planta Medica, 56(6): 695, 1990.
Antirenitic	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.
Antiretroviral	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	3	Bettarini, F., Borgonovi, G.E., et al. 1991. Antiparasitic Compounds from East African Plants: Isolation and Biological Activity of Anonaine, Matricarianol, Canthin-6-One and Caryophyllene Oxide. Insect Sci. Applic. 14(1): 93-99, 1993.