Plant Camptotheca acuminata (Cornaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Happy Tree

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
10-HYDROXYCAMPTOTHECIN	10	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-HYDROXYCAMPTOTHECIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
20-HEXANOYL-10-METHOXYCAMPTOTHECIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
20-HEXANOYLCAMPTOTHECIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPTOTHECIN	19	Seed	not available	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPTOTHECIN	19	Stem	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEOXYCAMPTOTHECIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIFOLIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIMETHYLELLAGIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VENOTERPENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VINCOSIDE-LACTAM	0	Fruit	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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allergenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Analgesic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenovirus	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 333.
Antiaging	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergenic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antialzheimeran	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiangiogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	2	Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.