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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Tecoma stans (Bignoniaceae)

Common Names
Yellow Elder
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
3-TRANS,9-CIS,12-CIS,15-CIS-OCTADECATETRAENOIC-ACID 0 Seed 38000.0 43700.0 *
4-HYDROXYSKYTANTHINE 0 Plant *
4-NORACTINIDINE 0 Plant *
5,6,-MONOEPOXYCRYPTOXANTHIN 0 Flower *
5,6,5',6'-DIEPOXYCRYPTOXANTHIN 0 Flower *
5-DEHYDROSKYTANTHINE 0 Plant *
5-DEOXYSTANSIOSIDE 0 Plant *
5-HYDROXYSPUTANTHIN 0 Plant *
7(A)-HYDROXYSKYTANTHINE 0 Plant *
9-HYDROXYSPUTANTHIN 0 Plant *
ACTINIDINE 4 Plant *
ALKALOIDS 0 Leaf 4500.0 -0.31 *
ALKALOIDS 0 Seed 4000.0 -0.61 *
AMARELOSIDE 0 Plant *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Flower *
ANTHRANILIC-ACID 6 Plant *
ANTHRANILIC-ACID-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Flower *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit *
BOSCHNIAKINE 0 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiamebic 1 (View) Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antiandrogenic 3 (View) Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianxiety 1 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiarrhythmic 1 (View) *
Antiarthritic 2 (View) *
Antiasthmatic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiatherogenic 1 (View) *
Antibacterial 5 (View) Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibrucellosic 1 (View) Gawron, A., Gorski*, G., Glowniak**, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.
Anticancer 2 (View) *
Anticancer (Breast) 2 (View) Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Colon) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Kidney) 1 (View) Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Liver) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 (View) Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Skin) 1 (View) *
Anticarcinogenic 2 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.