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Plant Morus alba (Moraceae)

Common Names
Sang-Pai-Pi; White Mulberry
How this plant is used
Food
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
MORACETIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MORACHALCONE-A 0 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MORIN 15 Wood 3000.0 4400.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MORUSIN 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE 3 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MULBERRANOL 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MULBERRIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MULBERROCHROMENE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MULBERROFURAN-B 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MULBERROFURAN-M 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MULBERROFURAN-N 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-BUTANOL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-BUTYRALDEHYDE 1 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Fruit 7.0 54.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
NORARTOCARPANONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
O-CRESOL 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OXYDIHYDROMORUSIN 0 Root Bark 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
Epidermal-Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Essential 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 3 Martindale's 28th
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 13 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fumigant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Fungicide 18 Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective 3 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hematopoietic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic 2 Martindale's 28th
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *