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Plant Cedrus deodora (Pinaceae)

Common Names
Deodar Cedar
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
LIMONENE-CARBOXYLIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed not available 42465.0 -0.55 Duke, 1992 *
MESO-SECISOLARICIRESINOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-METHYL-ACETOPHENONE 2 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-METHYL-DELTA-3-TETRAHYDROACETOPHENONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Seed not available 181035.0 4.05 Duke, 1992 *
PINITOL 5 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed not available 131000.0 -0.91 Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Stem Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed not available 37995.0 0.26 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Leaf not available 32000.0 -0.96 Duke, 1992 *
TOXIFOLIN 0 Stem Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Comedolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic 1 Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990.
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 *
Expectorant 1 Duke, 1992 *
FLavor 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
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 3 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.