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
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th
Diuretic	1	HerbalGram No. 17.
FLavor	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Immunomodulator	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Irritant	2	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Litholytic	1	Martindale's 29th
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Mycobactericide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Odontolytic	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.