Plant Salix alba (Salicaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

White Willow

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-O-METHYL-GLUCURONOXYLAN	3	Wood	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
5-HYDROXY-PIPECOLIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALBOSIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ALBOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKANES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CELLULOSE	0	Wood	not available	444000.0	0.50	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ALPHA-GLUCAN	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Bark	11.0	67.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
AMENTOFLAVONE	18	Leaf	not available	120.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
APIGENIN	101	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-O-(4-COUMAROYL-GLUCOSIDE)	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Bark	11.0	68.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Bark	18480.0	110000.0	1.12	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Wood	not available	8700.0	-0.34	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASTRAGALIN	7	Pollen Or Spore	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
Sunscreen	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	1	Martindale's 28th
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thermogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Thymoprotective	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Tineacide	1	Martindale's 29th
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Tonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	4	Azuma, Y., Onishi, Y., Sato, Y., Kizaki, H. 1995. Effects of Protein Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors With Different Modes of Action on Topoisomerase Activity and Death of IL-2-Dependent CTLL-2-Cells. J Biochemistry, 118: 312-318.
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *