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

Common Names
Pontic Alpenrose
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SIMIARENOL 0 Leaf *
TANNIN 35 Leaf 50000.0 120000.0 0.12 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf *
UVAOL 6 Leaf *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (Liver) 1 *
Antitumor (Lung) 2 *
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 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 2 *
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 *
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiviral 8 *
Anxiolytic 1 *
Apoptotic 2 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 1 *
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 *
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 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 1 *