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
Antiprostatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
AntiRNA	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseborrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antistomatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitriglyceride	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitubercular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (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.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 197.
Antiviral	2	Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Anxiolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Atherogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *