Plant Bupleurum chinense (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Chai-Hu

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
3-O-(ALPHA-L-ARABINOPYRANOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL)-OLEANOLIC	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADONITOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Root	not available	0.7	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Root	132.0	1200.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Root	7810.0	71000.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	4.0	36.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	2200.0	20000.0	1.38	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Root	13.0	16.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-22-STIGMASTENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-7-STIGMASTENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	2200.0	20000.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Root	not available	90000.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Root	not available	380000.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Root	13200.0	120000.0	0.56	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Root	2.8	25.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Root	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
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Mucogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Myorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Nematicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nephroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
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
Pesticide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *