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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Prunus cerasus (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Sour Cherry
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CRYPTOCHLOROGENIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
CYANIDIN 7 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-GENTIOBIOSIDE 0 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE 0 Stem *
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSYLRHAMNOSYLGLUCOSIDE 0 Stem *
CYANIDIN-3-MONOGLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-RUTINOSIDE 1 Stem *
CYANIDIN-3-SOPHOROSIDE 0 Stem *
D,L-CATECHIN 0 Stem *
DECAN-1-AL 1 Plant *
DIHYDROCOUMARIN 2 Plant *
EO 0 Seed 10000.0 -0.42 *
EPICATECHIN 40 Plant *
EUGENOL 76 Plant *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 5 Plant *
FAT 0 Fruit 3000.0 48000.0 -0.27 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant *
FIBER 15 Fruit 2000.0 79000.0 -0.59 *
FOLACIN 15 Fruit 1.0 6.0 1.62 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Bronchodilator 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchosedative 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe 3 *
Calcium-Antagonist 6 *
Calcium-Antagonist? 1 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Inhibitor 1 Schussler, M., Fricke, U., Nikolov, N., and Holzl, J. 1991. Comparison of the Flavonoids Occurring in Crataegus species and Inhibition of 3',5'-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Phosphodiesterase. Plant Medica 57: Suppl Issue 2. p.A-133.
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 4 *
Cancer-Preventive 53 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 9 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Capillarifortificant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillarigenic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective 3 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 8 *
Carcinogenic? 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiac 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.
Cardiodepressant 1 *
Cardioprotective 10 *