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

Common Names

American Styrax; Sweetgum

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
QUERCETIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Plant	0.0	0.4	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
SHIKIMIC-ACID	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILVER	3	Stem	0.0	0.2	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	30.0	220.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Leaf	8.0	246.0	-1.02	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Stem	6.0	840.0	1.71	Duke, 1992 *
STYRENE	3	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STYROCAMPHENE?	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Leaf	1.0	57.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Stem	0.1	36.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
TUNGSTEN	0	Leaf	1.0	5.7	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
TUNGSTEN	0	Stem	0.6	3.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANAL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANADIUM	16	Leaf	0.2	2.5	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
VANADIUM	16	Stem	0.1	2.4	0.51	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Resin, Exudate, Sap	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	5	Martindale's 28th
Carcinogenic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Cardiomyopathogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective	6	Duke, 1992 *
Cardioprotective?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardiotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	5	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	3	Martindale's 28th
CNS-Stimulant	1	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CNS-Toxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	1	Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 359.