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Plant Crataegus laevigata (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Hawthorn; English Hawthorn; Whitethorn; Woodland Hawthorn
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
TRIMETHYLAMINE 1 Plant not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
TYRAMINE 11 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE 11 Fruit not available not available not available Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
TYRAMINE 11 Plant not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
URIC-ACID 0 Leaf not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
URIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN 18 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN 18 Branches not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN 18 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN 18 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN 18 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN 18 Plant not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
VITEXIN 18 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-2''-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSIDE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-2'-O-RHAMNOSIDE 1 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-2'-RHAMNOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-2'-RHAMNOSIDE 0 Leaf 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
Insectiphile 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insulinogenic 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Interferon-Synergist 1 Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 3 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 5 Duke, 1992 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leucocytogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic 2 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Lipotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *