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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Elaeagnus pungens (Elaeagnaceae)

Common Names
Thorny Silver Berry
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
3,7-DIMETHYLKAEMPFEROL 0 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
KUMATAKENIN 0 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
LUPEOL 21 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
OLEANOLIC-ACID 64 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Abortifacient 1 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Allelopathic 1 *
Analgesic 1 *
Androgenic 1 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiallergic 1 *
Antialzheimeran 1 Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215.
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic 1 *
Antiarrhythmic 2 *
Antiarthritic 1 Planta Medica, 57: A56, 1991.
Antiatherosclerotic 1 *
Antibacterial 4 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer 2 *
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 *