Plant Rhododendron ponticum (Ericaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pontic Alpenrose

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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLANDROMEDIENOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLANDROMEDOL	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANDROMEDOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANDROMEDOLDITERPENES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARBUTIN	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-10(18)-ACETYLANDROMEDOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPICATECHIN	40	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GOSSYPETIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALVIDIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALVIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHODODENDRIN	0	Plant	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
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
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.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	2	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Sedative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sodium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Sunscreen	2	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Sweetener	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Trypanocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.