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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
METHYL-ANTHRALINATE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	7500.0	33250.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
P2O5	0	Seed	not available	16500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	1380.0	6115.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSANS	0	Wood	not available	191000.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
PHASIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	2600.0	3200.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTREOLS	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	170000.0	255000.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	388000.0	432000.0	1.76	Duke, 1992 *
PYROCATECHIN-TANNINS	0	Bark	20000.0	70000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE	1	Seed	not available	1.0	-1.43	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ROBIN	4	Bark	not available	16000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ROBIN	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ROBINETIN	2	Wood	20000.0	80000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ROBININ	10	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ROBINITIN	0	Bark	not available	30000.0	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
Chelator	2	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.
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	2	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	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyanogenic	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Diagnostic	1	Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Diuretic	5	HerbalGram No. 17.
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	1	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.