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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
Gram(+)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 3 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatomagenic 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 4 Mayumi Ito (nee Someya), et al. 1990. Hepatoprotective Compounds from Canarium album and Euphorbia nematocypha. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2201-2203, 1990.
Hepatotoxic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224.
Hypoglycemic 1 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Immunomodulator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant 2 McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Immunosuppressant 2 Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insulin-Sparing 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Juvabional 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat 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.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
MAO-A-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *