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
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Leucocytogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MMP-9-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
NF-kB-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.