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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Ailanthus altissima (Simaroubaceae)

Common Names
Stinktree; Tree Of Heaven
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf *
RHAMNOSE 0 Plant *
SAPONIN 0 Bark *
SCOPOLETIN 44 Plant *
SHINJULACTONE-C 0 Root Bark 10.0 *
TANNIN 35 Leaf 120000.0 0.12 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
CNS-Depressant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
CNS-Stimulant 1 Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Copper-Chelator 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 4 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytotoxic 4 Collins, D.J., Culvenor, C.C.J., Lamberton, J.A., Loder, J.W. and Price, J.R., Plants for Medicines, CSIRO, East Melbourne, Australia, 1990, 303 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 1 *
Diaphoretic 1 *
Diaphoretic? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 *
Diuretic 1 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
Emetic 2 Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Estrogenic 2 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide 4 Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 *