Plant Prunus laurocerasus (Rosaceae)

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
Antipsoriac	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiradicular	4	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiseptic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiserotonin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antispasmodic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antistaphylococcic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisunburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiTGF-beta	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithiamin	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithromboxane	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithyroid	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitrypanosomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (brain)	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antitumor (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *