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
Hypocholesterolemic	1	Martindale's 30th
Hypoglycemic	1	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge?	1	Martindale's 28th
Irritant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Leucocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mucotropic	1	Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Mutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Narcotic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Nematicide	1	Shoyakugaku Zasshi, 44: 183.
Neurolytic	1	Merck 11th Edition
NF-kB-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *