Plant Daphne mezereum (Thymelaeaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Spurge Laurel; Spurge Olive

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
12-HYDROXYDAPHNETOXIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHOXY-7-HYDROXY-3,7'-DICOUMARYLETHER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COCOGNINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COCOGNINIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAPHNETOXIN	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAPHNETOXIN	1	Seed	not available	200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAPHNIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAPHNOPSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAPHNORETIN	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	60000.0	654000.0	2.05	Duke, 1992 *
HESPERIDIN	31	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEZEREIN	3	Fruit	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	75000.0	244000.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERTONE	0	Plant	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
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Analgesic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anti-LDL	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiallergenic	1	Yakugaku Zasshi, 111: 193, 1991.
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	2	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibradykinic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 366.
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiDNA	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.