Plant Smilax china (Smilacaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

China Root

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

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
CINCHONIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	111000.0	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSERYL-S-METHYLCYSTEAMINE-SULFOXIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SMILAX-SAPONIN-A	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SMILAX-SAPONIN-B	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SMILAX-SAPONIN-C	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

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
Anticataract	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
AntiCVI	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidementia	1	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Antidermatitic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidiabetic	1	Jin, G-Z., Yamagata, Y., and Tomita, K.-i. 1989. Structure of Rutin Pentamethanol. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(2): 297-300, 1990.
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifatigue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	2	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Antiherpetic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 198.
Antihistaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	1	Duke, 1992 *