Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Euonymus atropurpureus (Celastraceae)

Common Names
Burning Bush, Wahoo
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
ASPARAGINE 2 Bark *
ATROPUROL 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
ATROPURPURIN 0 Bark *
CEROTIC-ACID 0 Plant *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Plant *
CITRULLOL 0 Bark *
DULCITOL 2 Root 20900.0 *
EUONIC-ACID 0 Plant *
EUONYMOL 0 Bark *
EUONYSTEROL 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
FURAN-BETA-CARBONIC-ACID 0 Root *
GALACTITOL 0 Plant *
HOMOEUONYSTEROL 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Plant *
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Plant *
TANNIN 35 Root *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antioxidant Synergist 3 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiprostatotic 1 (View) *
Antiradicular 1 (View) 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 (View) 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 (View) *
Antiseptic 2 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antisickling 1 (View) 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 (View) *
Antitumor 4 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antitumor-Promoter 1 (View) *
Antiulcer 1 (View) *
Antiviral 1 (View) *
Bacteristat 1 (View) *
Bruchiphobe 1 (View) Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Cancer-Preventive 2 (View) Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Carcinogenic 2 (View) Science News, 146: 421.
Chelator 1 (View) *
Comedolytic 1 (View) *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *