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Plant Hedera helix (Araliaceae)

Common Names
Ivy
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed not available 70200.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed not available 17550.0 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELENIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
POLYACETYLENES 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed not available 162000.0 -0.64 Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN 87 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLIN 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *