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
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Resin, Exudate, Sap	50000.0	230000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ALCOHOL	3	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-CINNAMATE	1	Resin, Exudate, Sap	50000.0	10000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Leaf	0.0	0.6	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Stem	0.0	3.6	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Leaf	2.8	164.0	3.75	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Stem	0.6	360.0	2.36	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELPHINIDIN	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Leaf	not available	800.0	-0.94	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	150000.0	200000.0	0.64	Duke, 1992 *
ETHANOL	24	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-CINNAMATE	2	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	297000.0	0.17	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Stem	0.0	0.1	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
IODINE	12	Stem	3.0	6.0	0.77	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-0-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LANTHANUM	0	Leaf	1.2	8.2	-1.67	Duke, 1992 *
LANTHANUM	0	Stem	0.6	18.0	0.29	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
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimelanomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenopausal	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antimyalgic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
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.
Antinephrolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuropathic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineurotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiNF-kB	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antinyctalopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity	3	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
Antiodontalgic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiophidic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoarthritic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.