Plant Alnus glutinosa (Betulaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Black Alder

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
3-BETA-HYDROXYGLUTIN-5-EN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALNINCANONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALNULIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALNUSFOLIENDIOLONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSINOLIDE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASTASTERONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-AMYRENONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTINONE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPEROSIDE	30	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-ORNITHINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHLOBAPHENE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOALNULIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	not available	200000.0	0.52	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXEROL	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXERONE	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
AGEs-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allergenic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Analgesic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiaggregant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	4	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (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.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	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.