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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Ligustrum lucidum (Oleaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Privet; Glossy Privet; Ligustri Fructus; Privet; White Waxtree
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
(+)-TAXIFOLIN 0 Fruit *
(DL)-ERIODICTYOL 0 Fruit *
(Z)-1-(1-ETHOXY-ETHOXY)-3-HEXENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 18900.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
1,2-DIPHENYL-1,2-ETHANEDIOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 39200.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
1-METHYL-1-PROPYL-HYDRAZINE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 26000.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
1-PHENYL-1,2-BUTANEDIOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 41200.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
10-HYDROXY-LIGUSTROSIDE 0 Fruit *
10-HYDROXYOLEUROPEIN 0 Fruit *
2-ALPHA-HYDROXY-3-BETA-(4-HYDROXY-TRANS-CINNAMOYL-OXY)-OLEANOLIC-ACID 0 Plant *
3-4-DIHYDROXY-PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL 0 Fruit *
4-ACETYLOXY-2-BUTANONE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 54600.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
4-HYDROXY-BETA-PHENYLETHYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ACETYL-OLEANOLIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
ACETYLURSOLIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-ALPHA-4-TRIMETHYL-3-CYCLOHEXEN-METHANOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 32400.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALPHA-BUTYLBENZENE-METHANOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 56000.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALPHA-MANNITOL 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
APIGETRIN 0 Leaf *
ARSENIC 2 Fruit 0.6 0.23 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nematicide 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor 1 *
Neuroprotective 1 *
Neurotransmitter 1 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 3 *
NO-Inhibitor 1 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 2 *
Oviposition-Stimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 8 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 1 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Pigment 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.