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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
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CRESOL 8 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-METHYL-ACETOPHENONE 2 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITONE 0 Wax not available 440000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL 26 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Wood 50000.0 80000.0 -0.21 Duke, 1992 *
SANTALAL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTALBIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTALOL 2 Root not available 95900.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTALOL 2 Wood 13500.0 61250.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTALONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTENE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTENOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SERINE 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEAROLIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERESANTALAL 0 Wood 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
CNS-Toxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Collyrium 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytotoxic 2 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Demulcent 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermal 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Dermatitigenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic 1 HerbalGram No. 17.
Embryotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Emetic 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Enterorelaxant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Essential 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 2 Martindale's 28th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.