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
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 *

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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
Diuretic	4	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Elastase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
FLavor	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemolytic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	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	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
HIF-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypocholesterolemic	3	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypoglycemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	4	Martindale's 29th