Plant Gelsemium sempervirens (Loganiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Yellow Jessamine

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-METHOXY-GELSEMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
9-HYDROXYSEMPEROSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN-MONOMETHYL-ETHER	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Root	not available	5000.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
FABIATIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEDINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMICINE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMIDE-7-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMIDINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMINE	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMININE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMIOL-1-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEMIOL-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GELSEVIRINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IPURANOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTATRIACONTANE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLETIN	44	Root	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
Musculotropic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mydriatic	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Myorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytohormonal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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.
Respiraparalytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Respirastimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sialogogue	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *