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
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antitumor (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	4	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiulcer	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiviral	8	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bactericide	1	Wealth of India.
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	3	Zhu, M., Phillipson, J. D., Greengrass, P. M., Bowery, N. E., Cai, Y. 1997. Plant Polyphenols: Biologically Active Compounds or Non-Selective Binders to Protein? Phytochemistry, 44(3): 441-447.
Beta-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *