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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Pinus sylvestris (Pinaceae)

Common Names
Scotch Pine
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 65000.0 2.10 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
BETA-PINENE 13 Root Essent. Oil 175000.0 200000.0 1.66 Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
BETA-PINENE 13 Twig *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Wood *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Pollen Or Spore *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Shoot *
BETA-TERPINEOL 3 Leaf Essent. Oil *
BETA-YLANGENE 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BORNEOL 35 Essential Oil *
BORNEOL 35 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BORNEOL 35 Leaf Essent. Oil 6500.0 62000.0 0.16 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 9600.0 -0.51 *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Leaf 60.0 175.0 -0.31 *
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf *
CALACORENE 0 Essential Oil *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Glaucomagenic 1 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 *
Glutathione-Depleting 1 *
Glutathionigenic 1 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 *
Gram(-)icide 1 *
GST-Inducer 1 *
Hemolytic 3 *
Hemostat 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic 2 *
Hepatomagenic 1 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 10 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotoxic 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hepatotropic 3 *
Herbicide 11 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor 2 *
Histaminic 2 *
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.