Plant Aloe vera (Aloeaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bitter Aloes; Aloe

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
8-C-GLUCOSYL-7-O-METHYL-ALOEDIOL	0	Juice	not available	71.6	not available	Okamura, N., Hine, N., Tateyama, Y., Nakazawa, M., Fujioka, T., Mihashi, K., Yagi, A. 1997. Three Chromones of Aloe vera Leaves. Phytochemistry, 45(7): 1511-1513.
8-C-GLUCOSYLCHROMONE-ALOERESIN-B	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
8-METHYL-TOCOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
8-[C-BETA-D-[2-O-(TRANS)-CINNAMOYL]-GLUCOPYRANOSYL]-2-[(R)-2-HYDROXYPROPYL]-7-METHOXY-5-METHYL-CHROMONE	0	Leaf	not available	13.1	not available	Hutter, J. A., Salman, M., Svinoha, W. B., Satsangi, N., Williams, R. F., Streeper, R. T., Weintraub, S. T. 1996. Antiinflammatory C-Glucosyl Chromone from Aloe barbadensis. J. Nat. Prod., 59(5): 541-543.
9-PROPANOYL-METHOXY-METHYL-PHENANTHRENE	0	Juice	not available	not available	not available	Yamaguchi, I., Mega, N., Sanada, H. 1993. Components of the Gel of Aloe vera (L.) Burm. F. Biosci Biotech Biochem 57(8): 1350-1352.
ACEMANNAN	14	Juice	not available	not available	not available	Lee, S. Y., Ryu, I. W., Shim, C. S. 1997. Purification and Characterization of Bioactivity Compound Acemannan from Aloe vera. Korean J. Pharmacog., 28(2): 65-71.
ACEMANNAN	14	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Leaf	not available	15769.0	0.74	Duke, 1992 *
ALBUMIN	0	Leaf	1.0	5.0	not available	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
ALDOPENTOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ALEOSONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ALIINASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ALOCUTIN-A	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ALOE-BARBENDON	0	Root	not available	9.0	not available	Saleem, R., Faizi, S., Deeba, F., Siddiqui, B. S., Qazi, M. H. 1997. Anthrones from Aloe barbadensis. Phytochemistry, 45(6): 1279-1282.
ALOE-CHRYSONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Saleem, R., Faizi, S., Deeba, F., Siddiqui, B. S., Qazi, M. H. 1997. Anthrones from Aloe barbadensis. Phytochemistry, 45(6): 1279-1282.
ALOE-EMODIN	24	Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN	24	Leaf	not available	45.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN-ANTHRANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ALOE-GLYCOPROTEIN	0	Juice	not available	not available	not available	Yagi, A., Egusa, T., Arase, M., Tanabe, M., Tsuji, H. 1997. Isolation and Characterization of the Glycoprotein Fraction with Proliferation-Promoting Activity on Human and Hamster Cells in Vitro from Aloe vera Gel. Planta Medica, 63(1):18-21.

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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
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Proteinase-Inhibitor	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.
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Purgative	7	Duke, 1992 *
Pyrogenic	1	Kandasamy, S. B. 1977. Central Effect of 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic Acid (Arachidonic Acid) on the Temperature in the Conscious Rabbit. Experientia, 33: 1626.
Respirodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Roborant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Rodenticide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sedative	4	Duke, 1992 *
Serotoninergic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Soap	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Styptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.