Plant Ruscus aculeatus (Liliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Butcher's Broom; Box-Holly

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
SUGARS	0	Root	24160.0	80000.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
TETRACOSANOIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
THIAMIN	31	Root	not available	8.3	0.14	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE	0	Root	0.2	0.5	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Root	not available	21.0	0.46	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
TRICOSANOIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN	18	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-2''-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSIDE	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-2'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	not available	698000.0	-0.31	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
WATER	0	Root	not available	698000.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ZINC	77	Root	0.6	2.1	-0.97	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
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Vasoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	7	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Venotonic	1	Tyler, V.E.. 1982. The Honest Herbal. George F. Stickley Co., Philadelphia PA. 263 pp.
Vulnerary	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).