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

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Plum

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
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	410.0	2770.0	-0.32	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	2340.0	2520.0	-0.65	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	50.0	338.0	-0.28	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	1.8	13.0	-0.33	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PECTIN	24	Fruit	8000.0	40000.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
PERSICAXANTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	170.0	1149.0	-0.75	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHATIDES	0	Seed	not available	3000.0	-1.35	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	70.0	4080.0	0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Fruit	not available	0.1	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Sprout Seedling	70.0	700.0	-1.27	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1677.0	44200.0	2.33	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Fruit	340.0	2297.0	-0.47	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	7660.0	55000.0	-0.73	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	202000.0	-0.28	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PRUDOMESTIN	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PUFA	4	Fruit	1340.0	9054.0	-0.19	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
RHAMNOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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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
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
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	2	Duke, 1992 *
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	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.
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Vasoactive	1	Merck 11th Edition
Vasoconstrictor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	9	Duke, 1992 *
Vasomotor-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	2	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	6	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).