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

Common Names

Black Cherry; Wild Cherry

How this plant is used

Food

Subspecies

serotina

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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
(R)-AMYGDALIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(R)-PRUNASIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-ALPHA-3-ALPHA-DIHYDROXYURS-12-EN-28-OIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	35.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4,5-TRIMETHOXYBENZOIC-ACID	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
ACETYL-CHOLINE	19	Leaf	not available	1.7	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ACETYL-CHOLINE	19	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Abstract (See species file)
ALUMINUM	5	Leaf	14.0	1440.0	0.76	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Stem	0.0	540.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
AMYGDALIN	8	Stem Bark	31600.0	41200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	29000.0	96000.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Stem	1900.0	54000.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Leaf	1.0	960.0	1.55	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Stem	6.0	810.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSE-1-BENZOATE	0	Leaf	not available	813.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-GLYCOSIDASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Abstract (See species file)
BORON	4	Leaf	2.0	48.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Stem	0.0	54.0	1.61	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	4060.0	32640.0	0.97	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
Antiasthmatic	5	Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	5	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	10	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	6	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215.
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticanker	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	3	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Anticataract	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticephalagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticholestatic	1	Shukla, B., Visen, P.K.S., Patnaik, G.K., Tripathi, S.C., Srimal, R.C., Dayal, R., and Dobhal, P.C. Hepatoprotective Activity in the Rat of Ursolic Acid Isolated from Eucalyptus Hybrid. Phytotherapy Research 6: 74-79, 1992.