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
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	3	Biosyn. Prod. Cancer Chemotherapy (Petit et al)
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hypoglycemic	1	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *