Plant Aleurites fordii (Euphorbiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Tungoil Tree

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
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	45000.0	90000.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	12000.0	24000.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL-6'-LINOLYLGLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL-6'-STEARYLGLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	3900.0	7800.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL-6'-LINOLYLGLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL-6'-PALMITYLGLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL-6'-STEARYLGLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiseptic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antistaphylococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistreptococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithyroid	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitumor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	4	Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	2	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Astringent	1	Martindale's 29th
Cancer-Preventive	4	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candida-SAP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Candidicide	1	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cytotoxic	2	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 359.