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
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	6	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	2	Planta Medica, 57: A43, 1991.
Capillariprotective	1	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	3	Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cerebrotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	2	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CNS-Toxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMP-Inhibitor	1	Dullo, A. G., et al. 1999. Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, 70: 1040-1045.
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-2-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	2	Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.