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Plant Nerium oleander (Apocynaceae)

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
Antiglaucomic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhagic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihemorrhoidal 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
AntiHIV 5 Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
Antihomocysteine 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperlipidemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiinflammatory 13 Duke, 1992 *
Antiischemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic 2 Duke, 1992 *