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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
NO-Genic 1 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Perfumery 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 11 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pheromone 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 1 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 1 Meckes, M., Calzada, F., Tapia-Contreras, A., Cedillo-Rivera, R. 1999. Antiprotozoal Properties of Helianthemum glomeratum. Phytotherapy Research, 13(2): 102-105.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Purgative 1 Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 5 Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.