Plant Nandina domestica (Berberidaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Heavenly Bamboo; Sacred Bamboo; Southern Heaven Bamboo; Nanten (Jap.)

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
MENISPERMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYLISOCORYDINIUM	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NANDAZURINE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NANDAZURINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NANDINENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NANTENINE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NANTENINE	4	Seed	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-METHYLDOMESTICINE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-METHYLDOMESTICINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-GLUCOSYLOXYMANDELONITRILE	1	Shoot	100000.0	200000.0	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P-GLUCOSYLOXYMANDELONITRILE-4'-CAFFEIC-ACID-ESTER	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PELARGONIDIN-3-XYLOSYLGLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	200000.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOPINE	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SINOACUTINE	1	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
Mycobactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mydriatic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Myocardiodepressant	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.
Narcotic	2	Martindale's 29th
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	8	Duke, 1992 *
Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phototoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Huang, C. G., Chu, Z. L., Yang, Z. M. 1991. Effect of Berberine on Synthesis of Platelet TXA2 and Plasma PGI2 in Rabbits. Chung-Kuo Yao Li Hsueh Pao, 12(6): 526-528.
Protisticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Respiradepressant	1	Martindale's 28th
Respirastimulant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
RNA-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Rodenticide	1	Martindale's 29th
RT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	4	Duke, 1992 *
Spasmogenic	1	Blaschek, W., Hansel, R., Keller, K., Reichling, J., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1998. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Auflage Band 2 (A-K), 909 pp., (L-Z), 858 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.