Plant Catharanthus lanceus (Apocynaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Lanceleaf Periwinkle

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
TETRAHYDROALSTONINE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VINCOLINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VINDOLINE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VINOSIDINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
YOHIMBINE	37	Plant	not available	50000.0	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Respirostimulant	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Rhinorreic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sialogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sympatholytic	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Tranquilizer	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tremorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *