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Plant Eucommia ulmoides (Eucommiaceae)

Common Names
Tu Chung; Du Zhong; Gutta-Percha Tree
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
GENIPOSIDE 10 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GENIPOSIDIC-ACID 10 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GUTTA-PERCHA 0 Bark 20000.0 65000.0 not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
IRON 6 Bark not available 300.0 0.44 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed Oil not available 100000.0 -1.14 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil 640000.0 680000.0 1.39 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MAGNESIUM 65 Bark not available 2080.0 0.23 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
MANGANESE 14 Bark not available 135.0 0.23 Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY 1 Bark not available 0.9 -0.56 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Oil 160000.0 180000.0 -0.74 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLIVIL-4',4'-DI-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed Oil not available 47000.0 -0.90 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PINORESINOL-DIGLUCOSIDE 1 Stem Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Bark not available 6170.0 0.04 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PYROGALLOL 23 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Bark not available 70000.0 0.15 Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
SODIUM 1 Bark not available 2820.0 3.47 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed Oil not available 25000.0 -0.74 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Neurotransmitter 1 Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Nigrifacient 1 Martindale's 29th
NO-Genic 1 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 2 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Oviposition-Stimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
Paralytic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 11 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *