Plant Sambucus nigra (Adoxaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

European Alder; European Elder; European Elderberry; Elder; Black Elder

How this plant is used

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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
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDYL-ALCOHOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	128.0	1515.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	739.0	11000.0	0.58	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	8600.0	48765.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
ASTRAGALIN	7	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASTRAGALIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BALANOPHORIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Flower Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Flower Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN-PALMITATE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-AMYRIN-PALMITATE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	100.0	150.0	0.14	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
Antiprolactin	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprotozoal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	2	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Antipsoriac	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	12	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinopathic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatalgic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic	7	Martindale's 28th
Antirhinitic	1	Duke, 1992 *