Plant Robinia pseudoacacia (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Black Locust

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
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	1.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTEIN	4	Wood	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BUTIN	4	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	12900.0	15000.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	not available	19000.0	2.73	Duke, 1992 *
CANAVANINE	14	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	350000.0	465000.0	-1.17	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	204000.0	466000.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENE	0	Leaf	not available	2090.0	1.92	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROROBINETIN	2	Wood	53000.0	176000.0	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
EO	0	Leaf	not available	100.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL	17	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	30000.0	33000.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	108000.0	133000.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	172000.0	390000.0	2.83	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	129000.0	136000.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
FISETIN	15	Wood	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
Antimenopausal	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).
Antimetabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic	8	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antinephritic	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.
Antinitrosaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiodontalgic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiophidic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoporotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antipeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontitic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperistaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *