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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
LEAD 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEAD 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOANTHOCYANIDIN 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.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Fruit not available not available not available Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Fruit not available not available not available Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LIPASE 0 Seed 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.
LUPEOL 21 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Bud not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Fruit not available not available not available Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
LUTEOLIN 78 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-3',7-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Bud not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-3',7-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 262.0 940.0 -0.55 Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE 14 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE 14 Fruit 0.4 1.4 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
MASLINIC-ACID 6 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEOATEGOLIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
NEOTEGOLIC-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.
NIACIN 39 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONACOSAN-10-OL 0 Plant 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.
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 *