Plant Liquidambar orientalis (Hamamelidaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Oriental Storax; Oriental Styrax

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
STORESIN-CINNAMATE	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STYRACIN	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	50000.0	100000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STYRENE	3	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STYROL	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	150000.0	300000.0	0.80	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
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic	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.
Allergenic	6	Martindale's 29th
Analgesic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	3	Martindale's 28th
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anhydrotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiallergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	5	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer	3	Duke, 1992 *
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.