Plant Quercus robur (Fagaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

English Oak

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
2-ALPHA-ACETOXYFRIEDEL-3-ONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXYDAMMAR-24-EN-3-ON	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-FRIEDELANONE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHIN	43	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGITANNIN	8	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELINOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTIN-5(6)-EN-3-BETA-OL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTIN-5(6)-EN-3-ON	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-(+)-QUERCITOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-VIBURNITOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDIN	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCODELPHINIDIN	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MESO-INOSITOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHLOBATANNIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Bark	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
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	2	Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide	3	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.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *