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
Immunomodulator	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	2	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Insectifuge	3	J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insectiphile	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
JNK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Laxative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lupus-Generating	1	Merck 11th Edition
MAO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.