Plant Simarouba glauca (Simaroubaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Simaruba Bark

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
15-HYDROXYAILANTHONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
15-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYLGLAUCARUBOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
15-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYLGLAUCARUBOLONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	9240.0	10085.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-13(18)-GLAUCARUBIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	620000.0	677000.0	2.17	Duke, 1992 *
GLAUCARUBIN	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLAUCARUBINONE	8	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLAUCARUBOLONE	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	11780.0	12860.0	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	1425.0	1555.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	355700.0	388400.0	2.21	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	70870.0	77380.0	0.90	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed	1300.0	1420.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	169600.0	185220.0	3.45	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
Immunomodulator	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Insecticide	1	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Insectifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Lubricant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Nematicide	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nematistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Soap	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.