Plant Prunus africana (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bitter Almond; Red Stinkwood

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
FRIEDELIN	2	Bark	not available	28900.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
LAURIC-ACID	7	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALINIC-ACID	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MASLINIC-ACID	6	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-DOCOSANOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HENTRIACONTANE	3	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TETRACOSANOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTANE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTENONE	0	Bark	not available	20000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-4-EN-3-ONE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TETRACOSAN-1-OL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-FERULIC-ACID	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Bark	not available	28900.0	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
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Fujita, T., Ohira, K., Miyatake, K., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, M. 1995. Inhibitory Effect of Perillosides A and C, Related Monoterpene Glucosides on Aldose Reductase and Their Structure-Activity Relationships. Chem Pharm Bull, 43(6): 920-926.
Analgesic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiallergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	1	Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215.
Antiandrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarrhythmic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	1	Planta Medica, 57: A56, 1991.
Antiasthmatic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	4	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer	1	Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215.
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *