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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Aralia spinosa (Araliaceae)

Common Names
Devil's Walking Stick; Hercules' Club; Prickly Ash; American Angelica Tree
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
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 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 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 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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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Allergenic 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Anemiagenic 1 *
Antialopecic 1 *
Antiandrogenic 1 *
Antiinflammatory 1 *
Antileukotriene-D4 1 *
Cancer-Preventive 1 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Choleretic 1 *
Dermatitigenic 1 *
FLavor 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Hypocholesterolemic 1 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 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Irritant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Percutaneostimulant 1 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 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Propecic 1 *