Plant Cananga odorata (Annonaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cananga; Ylang-Ylang

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
2-METHYL-BUT-3-EN-2-OL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-BUT-2-EN-1-OL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-BUT-3-EN-1-OL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETONE	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ACETATE	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-BENZOATE	17	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-SALICYLATE	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYL-ACETATE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADINENE	4	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CANANGINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CREOSOL	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-ALPHA-PINENE	0	Flower	15.0	135.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Flower	5000.0	25000.0	0.41	Duke, 1992 *
EPSILON-CADINENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Ascaricide	1	Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Astringent	1	Merck 11th Edition
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	8	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	4	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Candidistat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	2	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Carcinogenic?	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiotonic	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Carminative	3	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Choleretic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Depressant	5	Martindale's 29th
CNS-Stimulant	3	Martindale's 29th
Comedolytic	1	Martindale's 29th
Controlled	1	HerbalGram No. 20, page 15.
Corrosive	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Counterirritant	2	Merck 11th Edition
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	2	Newmark, T. M. and Schulick, P. 2000. Herbal Cox-2 Inhibition - Nature's Challenge to Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease. Hohm Press, Prescott AZ.