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Plant Symplocarpus foetidus (Araceae)

Common Names
Skunk Cabbage
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
CALCIUM-OXALATE 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Plant 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
Cancer-Preventive 1 HerbalGram No. 22 - Spring 1990, page 14.
Carcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Chelator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Emetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory 1 Duke, 1992 *
Laxative 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lithogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *