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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	3	Yasukawa, K., Takido, M., Takeuchi, M., Sato, Y., Nitta, K., and Nakagawa, S. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Flavonol Glycosides on 12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate-Induced Tumor Promotion. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(3): 774-776, 1990.
Antitussive	1	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Antiulcer	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral	8	Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Anxiolytic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Beta-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	12	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	2	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Carcinogenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Cardioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cerebrodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *