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
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	11	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	4	Huang, C., Tunon, H., Bohlin, L. 1995. Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Isolated from Menyanthes trifoliata L. Yao Hsueh Hsueh Pao, 30(8): 621-626.