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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
24-METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYROSPERMOL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CREPITIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOARTENOL	7	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HURAIN	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HURATOXIN	3	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HURINE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	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
Candidicide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Carcinogenic	1	Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
Cardiac	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Chemopreventive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	1	Pharmazie, 46: 156, 1991.
Choleretic	3	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.
Cholesterolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Co-carcinogenic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Diuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Fungicide	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Hepatoprotective	2	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.