Plant Arundo donax (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Giant Reed

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
2-O-(4-O-METHYL-ALPHA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE-URONIC-A.)-D-XYLOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,3'-BIS(INDOLYL-METHYL)-DIMETHYL-AMMONIUM-HYDROXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-METHOXY-N-METHYLTRYPTAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Plant	not available	5000.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN-ACETATE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Plant	92000.0	150000.0	0.52	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Stem	not available	42000.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN-ACETATE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUFOTENIDINE	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUFOTENINE	10	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	not available	4900.0	-0.93	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	699000.0	777000.0	0.67	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Stem	446000.0	503000.0	-1.24	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROBUFOTENINE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DONAXARIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DONAXERINE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DONAXINE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELEAGNINE	0	Flower	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
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiallergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	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	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianxiety	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarrhythmic	3	Cardiology from Nature.(by Authur Hollman, s.d.) Telectronics Pacing System, London. 13 pp.
Antiarthritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	2	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer	1	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 *