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
FAT	0	Plant	11000.0	13000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Stem	not available	30000.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Plant	285000.0	375000.0	1.13	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONE-C-GLYCOSIDES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCURONIC-ACID	4	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMINE	5	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMINE-METHOHYDROXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMINE-N-OXIDE	0	Plant	not available	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-ARABINO-D-GLUCURONO-D-XYLAN	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-ARABINOSE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNIN	13	Stem	157000.0	227000.0	0.77	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N,N-DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N,N-DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE-METHOHYDROXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSANS	0	Stem	not available	251000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	not available	1100.0	-1.20	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	not available	25500.0	0.26	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 *