Plant Nerium oleander (Apocynaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Oleander

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
16-ANHYDRO-DEACETYL-NERIGOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
9-D-HYDROXY-CIS-12-OCTADECANOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADIGOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADYNERIN	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Flower	not available	10.0	-1.47	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Leaf	not available	50.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Stem	not available	20.0	-1.44	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPESTEROL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAOUTCHOUC	0	Plant	not available	490.0	-1.11	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRIC-ACID	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPROIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLIC-ACID	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CORNERIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CORTENERIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEACETYLOLEANDRIN	0	Leaf	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
Diaphoretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Elastase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor	3	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	8	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.