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

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	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.
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Sequestrant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Sialogogue	1	Martindale's 29th
Sweetener	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *