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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
PLANTARENALOSIDE 0 Plant *
QUERCETIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
SKATOLE 0 Plant *
STANSIOSIDE 0 Plant *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 600.0 690.0 -0.55 *
TECOMANINE 0 Plant *
TECOMINE 1 Leaf *
TECOSTANINE 1 Leaf *
TECOSTIDINE 0 Leaf *
TRYPTAMINE 4 Plant *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Plant *
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Flower *
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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
Ovicide 1 (View) *
Perfumery 2 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 10 (View) *
Phagocytotic 3 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Piscicide 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Preservative 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Prolactinogenic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Prooxidant 2 (View) *
Propecic 2 (View) *
Prostaglandigenic 2 (View) *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 (View) Xu, L. N., Yu, W. G., Tian, J. Y., Liu, Q. Y. 1990. Effect of Sodium Ferulate on Arachidonic Acid Metabolism. Yao Hsueh Hsueh Pao, 25(6): 412-416.
Protisticide 1 (View) *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 1 (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.
Respiradepressant 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Respirodepressant 1 (View) *
Rodenticide 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Schistosomicide 1 (View) *
Sedative 3 (View) *
Serotoninergic 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Soap 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.