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

Common Names

Blackthorn; Sloe

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
PRUNICYANIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-ALPHA-L-ARABOFURANOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	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
Antialzheimeran	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	1	Meli, R., Autore, G., Di Carlo, G., Capasso, F. Inhibitory Action of Quercetin on Intestinal Transit in Mice. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 201, 1990.
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiapoplectic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	10	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer	5	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *