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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
TRANS-COUMNARINIC-ACID 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ULMOPRENOL 0 Bark not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ULMOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ZINC 77 Bark not available 14.0 0.11 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.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiinfertility 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 11 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antiinsomniac 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiischemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiLegionella 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric 1 Martindale's 29th
Antileukemic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 225.
Antileukonychic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilupus 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiLyme 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimastalgic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimelanogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *