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
BEBEERINE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BEBUXINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXALINE-C	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXALPHINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXALTINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXAMINOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXANDRINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXANINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXARINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXATINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXAZIDINE-B	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXAZINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXDELTINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXENINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXENINE-G	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXENONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXEPIDINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUXERIDINE	0	Leaf	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
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Nematicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	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	2	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Purgative	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *