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Common Names
Devil's Walking Stick; Hercules' Club; Prickly Ash; American Angelica Tree
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed | not available | 102000.0 | -0.14 | Kleiman, R., Spencer, G. F. 1982. Search for New Industrial Oils: 16. Umbelliflorae-Seed Oils Rich in Petroselinic Acid. J. Amer. Oil Chem. Soc., 59: 29-32. |
| PETROSELINIC-ACID | 0 | Fruit | not available | 11.3 | -1.33 | Ratnayake, S., McLaughlin, J. L. 1993. Petroselinic Acid from the Ripe Berries of Aralia spinosa. Int. J. Pharmacog., 31(1): 35-37. |
| PETROSELINIC-ACID | 0 | Seed | not available | 711000.0 | 0.73 | Kleiman, R., Spencer, G. F. 1982. Search for New Industrial Oils: 16. Umbelliflorae-Seed Oils Rich in Petroselinic Acid. J. Amer. Oil Chem. Soc., 59: 29-32. |
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| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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| 5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor | 1 (View Chemicals list for 5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Allergenic | 1 (View Chemicals list for Allergenic) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor | 1 (View Chemicals list for Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anemiagenic | 1 (View Chemicals list for Anemiagenic) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialopecic | 1 (View Chemicals list for Antialopecic) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiandrogenic | 1 (View Chemicals list for Antiandrogenic) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiinflammatory | 1 (View Chemicals list for Antiinflammatory) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antileukotriene-D4 | 1 (View Chemicals list for Antileukotriene-D4) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cancer-Preventive | 1 (View Chemicals list for Cancer-Preventive) | Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp. |
| Choleretic | 1 (View Chemicals list for Choleretic) | Duke, 1992 * |
| Dermatitigenic | 1 (View Chemicals list for Dermatitigenic) | Duke, 1992 * |
| FLavor | 1 (View Chemicals list for FLavor) | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Hypocholesterolemic | 1 (View Chemicals list for Hypocholesterolemic) | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| Insectifuge | 1 (View Chemicals list for Insectifuge) | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Irritant | 1 (View Chemicals list for Irritant) | Merck 11th Edition |
| Percutaneostimulant | 1 (View Chemicals list for Percutaneostimulant) | Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990. |
| Perfumery | 1 (View Chemicals list for Perfumery) | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Propecic | 1 (View Chemicals list for Propecic) | Duke, 1992 * |