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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NERITALOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ODOROBIOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ODOROSIDE-A 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ODOROSIDE-H 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ODOROTRIOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEAGENIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEANDOMYCIN 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEANDRIN 4 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID 64 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEASIDES 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Seed not available 140.0 -0.61 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed not available 300000.0 0.59 Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOCURAMINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETRIN-3-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN 44 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ROSAGININ 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN 87 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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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 *