Plant Santalum album (Santalaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

White Sandalwood

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
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
Insectifuge	6	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	1	Merck 11th Edition
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Mosquitofuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Motor-Depressant	3	Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Motor-Stimulant	1	Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mycobactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Nematicide	7	Shoyakugaku Zasshi, 44: 183.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Neurotoxic	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.