Plant Hedera helix (Araliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Ivy

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
ALPHA-HEDERIN	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-HEDERIN	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-GALACTOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELIXEN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMETINE	33	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FALCARINONE	3	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	351000.0	0.45	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-B	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEDERACOSIDES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEDERAGENIN	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	4	Twig	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	45630.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Leaf	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
Immunomodulator	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Insectifuge	3	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Interferonogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Juvabional	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leucocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	3	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lubricant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Metal-Chelator	1	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Microphagocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Molluscicide	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Mutagenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Mycobactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *