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Plant Magnolia officinalis (Magnoliaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Magnolia; Hou Pu; Magnolia-Bark
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
ALPHA-EUDESMOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ANONAINE 10 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORNYLMAGNOLIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Bark not available 6350.0 -1.18 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-EPOXIDE 6 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Bark not available 8.0 0.67 Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOMERIDIOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Bark 3000.0 10000.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
EUDESMOLS 0 Bark 2820.0 2940.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
HONOKIOL 18 Bark 2500.0 17200.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
HONOKIOL 18 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Bark not available 120.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
(-)-Chronotropic 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.
(-)-Inotropic 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.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic 1 Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
Allergenic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetyltransferase 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaflatoxin 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th