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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Hibiscus syriacus (Malvaceae)

Common Names
Rose Of Sharon; Shrub Althaea; Hachisu (Jap.); Mukuge (Jap.)
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-PINORESINOL-4-O-[BETA-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-(1->2)-ALPHA-RHAMNOSIDE] 0 Root Bark *
1,22-DOCOSANEDIOL 0 Bark *
1-CARBOXY-2,8-DIHYDROXY-6-METHYL-7-METHOXYNAPHTHALENECARBOLACTONE-(1->8) 0 Root Bark *
1-OCTACOSANOL 0 Bark *
2,7-DIHYDROXY-6-METHYL-8-METHOXY-1-NAPHTHALENECARBALDEHYDE 0 Root Bark *
2-HYDROXY-6-HYDROXYMETHYL-7,8-DIMETHOXY-1-NAPHTHALENECARBALDEHYDE 0 Root Bark *
3'-HYDROXYDAIDZEIN 2 Root Bark *
3-BETA-23,28-TRIHYDROXY-12-OLEANENE-23-CAFFEATE 3 Root Bark *
3-BETA-23,28-TRIHYDROXY-12-OLEANENE-3-BETA-CAFFEATE 3 Root Bark *
6'-O-ACETYL-DAIDZIN 1 Root Bark *
6'-O-ACETYL-GENISTIN 1 Root Bark *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark *
BETULIN 13 Bark *
ERYTHROTRIOL 0 Bark *
FERULOYLTYRAMINES 0 Root Bark *
HIBISCUSIDE 1 Root Bark *
ISOVITEXIN 4 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MALVALIC-ACID 0 Seed Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NONANEDIOIC-ACID 0 Bark *
SAPONARETIN 0 Plant Perry, Lily M. 1980. Medicinal Plants of East and Southeast Asia. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusets. 620 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
ACE-Inhibitor 2 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888.
Androgenic 1 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarrhythmic 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antibacterial 1 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibradiquinic 1 Fitoterapia No.61: 277, 1990.
Anticancer 2 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticarcinomic 1 *
Antidermatitic 1 *
Antiedemic 1 *
Antiestrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifeedant 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.