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

Common Names

Cork 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
ASH	0	Cork	1000.0	40000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN	13	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Cork	18000.0	50000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEROIDS	0	Cork	45000.0	150000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLITOL	0	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FATTY-ACIDS	0	Cork	200000.0	380000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN	2	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCERIN	1	Cork	10000.0	65000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNIN	13	Cork	126000.0	180000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHELLOGENIC-ACID	0	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHELLONIC-ACID	0	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHLOBAPHENE	0	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHLOIONIC-ACID	0	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHLOIONOLIC-ACID	0	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUBERIN	0	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUBERINDIOL	0	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Cork	20000.0	65000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Cork	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Cork	30000.0	70000.0	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
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge?	1	Martindale's 28th
Irritant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Perfumery	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Huang, C., Tunon, H., Bohlin, L. 1995. Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Isolated from Menyanthes trifoliata L. Yao Hsueh Hsueh Pao, 30(8): 621-626.
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *