Plant Buxus sempervirens (Buxaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Boxwood

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
DIMETHYLCYCLOBUXINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYLCYCLOVIROBUXINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	416000.0	443000.0	0.94	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHONDODENDRINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYLCYCLOPROTOBUXINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-ACETYLCYCLOPROTOBUXINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-BENZOYL-O-ACETYL-BUXODIENINE-E	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-BENZOYLBUXODIENINE-E	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-BENZOYLCYCLOBUXIDINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-BENZOYLCYCLOBUXINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-BENZOYLCYCLOBUXOLIINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-BENZOYLCYCLOPROTOBUXOLIINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-BENZOYLDIHYDROCYCLOMICROPHYLLINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-BUXENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORBUXAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PARABUSONIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PARABUXINE	0	Plant	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
Antitumor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	3	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Carcinogenic	2	Science News, 146: 421.
Cardiactive	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Immunomodulator	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition