Plant Piscidia piscipula (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Jamaica Dogwood

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
3-O-METHYL-FUKIIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROMILLETTONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ICHTHYNONE	0	Bark	not available	2500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOMILLETTONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JAMAICIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LISETIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MILLETTONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUNETONE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PISCERYTHRONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PISCIDIA-SAPONIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PISCIDIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PISCIDIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PISCIDONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ROTENONE	13	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Plant	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
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Mycobactericide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Odontolytic	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pediculicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Perfumery	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Pulicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Scabicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sialogogue	1	Martindale's 29th
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener	1	Martindale's 28th
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *