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Plant Eleutherococcus senticosus (Araliaceae)

Common Names
Eleuthero Ginseng; Siberian Ginseng; Spiny Ginseng; Wu jia; Ci wu jia (Pinyin)
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
SUGARS 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS 0 Root 18900.0 90000.0 -0.13 Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGARESINOL 1 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGARESINOL-DI-O-GLUCOSIDE 2 Root not available 1300.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGARESINOL-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Root not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SYRINGARESINOL-GLUCOSIDE 1 Root not available 790.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIN 9 Root 40.0 4000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIN 9 Root Bark not available 1370.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIN 9 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIN 9 Stem Bark not available 24.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIN 9 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE 0 Root 0.4 2.0 -0.46 Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN 28 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VIT-E 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-E 75 Root not available not available not available Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
WATER 0 Root not available 790000.0 0.14 Duke, 1992 *
WAX 0 Root not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ZINC 77 Root 0.9 4.2 -0.87 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiepitheleomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue 6 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibromyalgic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.