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
(-)-EPISYRINGARESINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETONE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Seed	not available	7000.0	-0.45	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
AMENTOFLAVONE	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	not available	100.0	-0.43	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASH	0	Seed	not available	27000.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
BERBERINE	130	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALISTEPHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDRONANTENINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DOMESTICINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYPROLINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBOLDINE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCORYDINE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISODOMESTICINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JATRORRHIZINE	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNANS	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNOFLORINE	11	Plant	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
CNS-Active	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	3	Martindale's 29th
CNS-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collyrium	1	Duke, 1992 *
Convulsant	2	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Curaroid	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Cyanogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Digestive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Dopamine-Adenylate-Cyclase-Inhibitor	1	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterotonic	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	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry