Plant Frangula alnus (Rhamnaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Buckthorn

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
1,8-DIHYDRO-2-ACETYL-NAPHTHALENE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-MONOGLUCOSIDEMODIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOIN	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMYGDALIN	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRAQUINONES	6	Bark	30000.0	70000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRONE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRONE-GLYCOSIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARMEPAVINE	4	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BARBALOIN	6	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHIN	43	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOPHANOL	10	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DESOXYBARBALOIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-1-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-8-GLUCOSIDE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-8-O-BETA-GENTIOBIOSIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-DIANTHRONE	0	Bark	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
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Vasodilator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vasorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *