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Plant Quercus infectoria (Fagaceae)

Common Names
Aleppo Oak; Dyer's Oak; Gall Oak
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
BETA-D-GLUCOGALLIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOGALLIPHARIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Fruit 20000.0 40000.0 0.93 Duke, 1992 *
GALLOTANNIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOGALLIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXA-HEPTA-GALLOYL-GLUCOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
M-DIGALLIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PENTADIGALLOYLGLUCOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIC-ACID 41 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antihemorrhoidal 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatotoxic 3 Okuda, T., Yoshida, T., and Hatano, T. Antioxidant Effects of Tannins and Related Polyphenols. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.7 p.93.
Antiherpetic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 5 Tan, G.T., Pezzuto, J.M., Kinghorn,* A.D., Hughes, S.H. Evaluation Of Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 143-154, 1991.
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihypertensive 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antihyperthyroid 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 225.
Antileukotriene 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimelanomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMRSA 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antimyocarditic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.