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

Common Names

Sour Cherry

How this plant is used

Food

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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
SUGARS	0	Fruit	68000.0	104400.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	50000.0	70000.0	-0.62	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN	17	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN-3-HETEROSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TECTOCHRYSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	0.0	5.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	826000.0	874000.0	0.45	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	1.0	7.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anxiolytic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	8	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	2	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.
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Avicide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bacteristat	4	Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	4	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Bitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.