Plant Taxus baccata (Taxaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Common Yew

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
(+)-ABSCISSIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-2-(3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYBENZYL-3-(3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYBENZYLIDENE)-BUTANE-1,4-DIOL	0	Shoot	not available	4.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-HIBALACTONE	0	Shoot	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-ISOHIBALACTONE	0	Shoot	not available	7.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-MATAIRESINOL	1	Shoot	not available	4.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-RHODODENDRIN	0	Twig	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-RHODODENDROL	0	Twig	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-SECOISOLARICIRESINOL	0	Twig	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(R)-TAXIPHYLLINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(S)-DHURRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-DEHYDROXYBACCATIN-4	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-DEACETYLBACCATIN	0	Twig	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-DEACETYLCEPHALOMANNINE	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-DEACETYLTAXANE	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
13-DECINNAMOYLTAXICHINNIN-B	0	Twig	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
19-HYDROXYBACCATIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1BETA-HYDROXYBACCATIN-1	1	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4-DIVANILLYLTETRAHYDROFURAN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-DEMETHYL-(-)-SECOISOLARICIRESINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4'-O-DEMETHYLSUCHILACTONE	0	Twig	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
Antidysmenorrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemphysemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antienteritic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antienuretic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiepileptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antiflu	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antigargantitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.