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Plant Populus tacamahacca (Salicaceae)

Common Names
Balm Of Gilead
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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-ACETYL-PINOBANKSIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETOPHENONE 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
AR-CURCUMENE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BISABOLENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSIN 60 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CINEOLE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
D-ALPHA-BISABOLOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
D-CADINENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Bulb not available 20000.0 1.18 Duke, 1992 *
FARNESENE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALANGIN 13 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALANGIN-3-METHYL-ETHER 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GENKWANIN 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN 11 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IZALPININ 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigingivitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotropic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigout 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatotoxic 1 Joyeux, M., Rolland, A., Fleurentin, J., Mortier, F., and Dorfman, P. 1989. Tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide-Induced Injury in Isolated Rat Hepatocytes: A Model for Studying Anti-Hepatotoxic Crude Drugs. Planta Medica 56(2): 171-173, 1990.
Antiherpetic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic 3 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
AntiHIV 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihypertensive 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiimplantation 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory 5 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antileishmanic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 4 Life Sciences 55: 1061.
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 *
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimalarial 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.