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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Trichomonicide	3	Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypanocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Trypanosomastat	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Trypsin-Enhancer	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	3	HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricosuric	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	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.
Uterotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uterotrophic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	14	Duke, 1992 *
Vasomotor-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	4	Duke, 1992 *