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
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant	2	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Elastase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FEMA	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FLavor	8	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	6	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *