Plant Euonymus atropurpureus (Celastraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Burning Bush; Wahoo

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
ASPARAGINE	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ATROPUROL	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ATROPURPURIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEROTIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DULCITOL	2	Root	not available	20900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUONYMOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUONYSTEROL	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURAN-BETA-CARBONIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOMOEUONYSTEROL	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antioxidant Synergist	3	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiprostatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiradicular	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiseborrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antisickling	1	Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antitubercular	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antitumor-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Cancer-Preventive	2	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Carcinogenic	2	Science News, 146: 421.
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *