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Plant Plumeria acutifolia (Apocynaceae)

Common Names
Frangipani
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
ACETYL-LUPEOL 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN 10 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DIHYDROPLUMERICIC-ACID 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DIHYDROPLUMERICINE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAOUTCHOUC 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CEROTIC-ACID 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL 15 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL 17 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FULVOPLUMIERIN 7 Bark 1000.0 2500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL 35 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INCLUDES 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRIDOIDS 1 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOPLUMERICINE 1 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-GLYCOSIDE 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-(+)-BORNESITOL 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL 21 Latex Exudate 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
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperglycemic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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.
Antiimplantation 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory 9 Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipoperoxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 3 Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimelanomic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antimyocarditic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinephritic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosaminic 1 Duke, 1992 *