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
Antihypertensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiischemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilactobacillic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilisteria	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic	2	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiodontalgic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiophidic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant	5	Balanehru, S. and Nagarajan, B. 1992. Intervention of Adriamycin Induced Free Radical Damage. Biochemistry International 28(4): 735-744, 1992.
Antiperiodontic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPGE2	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplasmodial	1	Duke, 1992 *