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Plant Drimys winteri (Winteraceae)

Common Names
Winter's Bark
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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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
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE 1 Wood 353000.0 366000.0 -1.47 Duke, 1992 *
CINEOLE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CONFERTIFOLIN 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOMERIDOL 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROQUERCETIN 3 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DRIMENOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DRIMINE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DRIMOL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Bark not available 10000.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL 76 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FUEGINE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FURTONOLIDE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEMICELLULOSE 0 Wood 353000.0 366000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ISOTADEONAL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-3-BETA-ACETOXYDRIMENIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-PINENE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LIGNIN 13 Wood 277000.0 279000.0 -0.30 Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL 18 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antidote 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antidysenteric 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiedemic 2 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antienteritic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antiescherichic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant 4 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Antifertility 1 Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antigargantitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigonadotropic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal 1 Martindale's 29th