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
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	1	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	1	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Capillariprotective	1	Martindale's 29th
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collyrium	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1	Biosyn. Prod. Cancer Chemotherapy (Petit et al)
Demulcent	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).