Plant Podophyllum peltatum (Berberidaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Mayapple

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
PODOPHYLLIC-ACID	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PODOPHYLLIN	8	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PODOPHYLLOTOXIN	26	Rhizome	7000.0	12000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PODOPHYLLOTOXIN-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PODORHIZOL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	50000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-GALACTOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Plant	30000.0	60000.0	-0.53	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
Antiallergenic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiamnesic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antianaphylactic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiangiogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	2	Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antibronchitic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antichlamydial	1	Duke, 1992 *