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
NF-kB-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
Pesticide	3	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Dunstan, C. A., Liu, B., Welch, C. J., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Alphitol, a Phenolic Substance from Alphitonia zizyphoides which Inhibits Prostaglandin Biosynthesis in vitro. Phytochemistry, 48(3): 495-497.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	1	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	1	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Styptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *