Plant Magnolia obovata (Magnoliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Ho-no-ki; Japanese Whitebark Magnolia

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
HONOKIOL	18	Bark	not available	3200.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNOLOL	13	Bark	not available	8100.0	-1.00	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
Antiacetyltransferase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticariogenic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticonvulsant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	1	Life Sciences 55: 1061.
Antioxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiradicular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist	2	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	2	Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.