Plant Strychnos nux-vomica (Loganiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Nux-Vomica; Stychnine

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
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CONDYLOCARPINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOARTENOL	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIABOLINE	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	40000.0	50000.0	-1.13	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GEISSOSCHIZINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYSTRYCHNINE	0	Fruit	7.0	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ICAJINE	2	Fruit	20.0	60.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSTRYCHNINE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	360.0	4600.0	-0.88	Duke, 1992 *
LOGANIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LOGANIN	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNOSE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	360.0	450.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-SEC-PSEUDO-BETA-COLUBRINE	0	Fruit	not available	7.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NOR-MACUSINE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NOVACINE	0	Fruit	180.0	200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	2480.0	31000.0	-0.72	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
Termitifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Tonic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Tremorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Vulnerary	1	Duke, 1992 *