Plant Forsythia suspensa (Oleaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Lian-Jiao; Lien-Chiao

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
ARCTIIN	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	not available	4380.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	not available	19.0	0.48	Duke, 1992 *
D-PINORESINOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-PINORESINOL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORSYTHID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORSYTHIDMETHYLETHER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORSYTHOSIDE-A	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORSYTHOSIDE-B	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORSYTHOSIDE-C	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORSYTHOSIDE-D	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	not available	440.0	1.22	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	not available	1160.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	not available	120.0	0.39	Duke, 1992 *
MATAIRESINOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHILLYGENIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHILLYRIN	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHILLYRIN	1	Fruit	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
Elastase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Fungicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	4	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 211.
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypoglycemic	3	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	7	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Immunomodulator	7	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *