Plant Cornus florida (Cornaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

American Dogwood

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
ASH	0	Seed	not available	36000.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Bark	not available	20000.0	2.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Bark	not available	20000.0	2.00	Pavannasasivam, G., & M.U.S. Sultanbawa. 1974. Betulinic acid in the Dilleniaceae and a review of its natural distribution. Phytochem. 13:2002-2006.
CALCIUM	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	not available	733000.0	0.83	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	24000.0	494000.0	1.20	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	not available	160000.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	not available	1500.0	-1.02	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	23000.0	390000.0	1.39	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCYLLITOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	not available	30000.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VERBENALIN	7	Bark	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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allergenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Analgesic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenovirus	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergenic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	2	Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215.
Antianaphylactic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.