Plant Rhus toxicodendron (Anacardiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Poison Ivy

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
FISETIN	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOTANNIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOTANNIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HENEICOSANDICARBONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS	0	Plant	not available	250000.0	2.17	Duke, 1992 *
URUSHENOL	0	Fruit	not available	33000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URUSHENOL	0	Leaf	not available	33000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URUSHENOL	0	Stem	not available	16000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URUSHIOL	8	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
Antihypertensive	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiimplantation	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	2	Life Sciences 55: 1061.
Antileukotriene	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antileukotriene-D4	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimalarial	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimelanomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic	4	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Antimyocarditic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinitrosaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant	6	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipancreatitic	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.