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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Santalum album (Santalaceae)

Common Names
White Sandalwood
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-SANTALOL 2 Wood *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Wood *
ASPARAGINE 2 Fruit *
BETA-CURCUMENE 0 Wood *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Wood *
BETA-SANTALENE 2 Wood *
BETA-SANTALIC-ACID 0 Wood *
BETA-SANTALOL 2 Wood *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit *
BETULIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
BORNEOL 35 Wood *
CITRONELLOL 15 Wood *
D-10-HYDROXY-PALMITONE 0 Wax *
ENDO-2-ENDO-3-DIMETHYL-NORBORNAN-EXO-2-OL 0 Wood *
ENDO-2-METHYL-3-METHYLIDENE-NORBORNAN-EXO-2-OL 0 Wood *
EO 0 Root 100000.0 4.06 *
EO 0 Wood 15000.0 62500.0 0.55 *
EPI-BETA-SANTALENE 0 Wood *
EUGENOL 76 Wood *
EXO-NORBICYCLOEKASANTALAL 0 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antispasmodic 3 *
Antispastic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antistaphylococcic 3 *
Antistreptococcic 1 *
Antithromboxane 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
AntiTNF 2 *
Antitubercular 1 *
Antituberculic 1 *
Antitumor 5 *
Antitumor (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 *
Antitumor (Lung) 1 *
Antitumor (Pancreas) 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter 1 *
Antiulcer 2 *
Antivaricose 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral 4 Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Antiwrinkle 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiyeast 1 *
Apifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.