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Plant Santalum album (Santalaceae)

Common Names
White Sandalwood
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
(E)-5-(2,3-DIMETHYL-3-NORTRICYCYL)-PENT-3-EN-2-ONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(E)-ALPHA-SANTALAL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
(E)-BETA-SANTALAL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-ALLOHYDROXYPROLINE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-FURFURYL-PYRROLE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-METHOXY-4-ALLYL-GUAIACOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
11-METHYL-7-OXA-TETRACYCLODODECANE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-3-METHYLENENORBORNAN-2-OL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-(P-TOLYL)-VALERALDEHYDE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-ETHYL-GUAIACOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-METHYL-CYCLOHEX-3-EN-1-YL-METHYL-KETONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-METHYL-CYCLOHEXA-1,3-DIEN-1-YL-METHYL-KETONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-METHYL-GUAIACOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-VINYL-GUAIACOL 4 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-VINYL-PHENOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
5,6-DIMETHYL-5-NORBORNEN-EXO-2-OL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE 3 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CURCUMENE 3 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SANTALENE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SANTALIC-ACID 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Anticoronary 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidermatitic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidiabetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidiarrheic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiedemic 4 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 95.
Antiescherichic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiesophagitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiestrogenic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifeedant 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal 1 Martindale's 28th
Antihepatotoxic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiherpetic 2 Duke, 1992 *