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

Common Names

Cherry Laurel

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
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Leaf	413.0	456.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Leaf	not available	500.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	250000.0	450000.0	0.97	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSIDES	0	Leaf	not available	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Leaf	not available	1200.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Seed	not available	340.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	3300.0	3960.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
MANDELONITRILE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	450.0	540.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	18350.0	22020.0	-0.80	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	2475.0	2970.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	31000.0	-1.80	Duke, 1992 *
PRULAURASIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNASIN	2	Leaf	14000.0	15000.0	1.41	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
Anticomplement	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Anticomplementary	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCrohn's	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticystitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidiabetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antiedemic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antielastase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antiescherichic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Antifertility	2	Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibrosarcomic	2	Duke, 1992 *