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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
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant *
CIS-VIOLAXANTHIN 0 Flower *
COUMARIN 57 Bark 80.0 *
CRYPTOXANTHIN 2 Flower *
DELTA-SKYTANTHINE 0 Plant *
FAT 0 Seed 200000.0 230000.0 -0.19 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant *
HYDROXYPHENYLLACTIC-ACID 0 Plant *
INDOLE 15 Plant *
LAPACHOL 48 Plant *
MUTATOCHROME 0 Plant *
N-NORMETHYL-SKYTANTHINE 0 Plant *
OCTADECADIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed 4800.0 5520.0 -1.00 *
OCTADECATETRAENOIC-ACID 0 Seed 3800.0 4370.0 *
OCTADECATRIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed 8200.0 9430.0 1.00 *
OCTADECENOIC-ACID 0 Seed 1400.0 1610.0 -1.00 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 1200.0 1380.0 -0.67 *
PHYTOENE 0 Plant *
PHYTOFLUENE-I 0 Plant *
PHYTOFLUENE-II 0 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antineoplastic 1 (View) *
Antinitrosaminic 2 (View) Ki Soon Rhee. Oilseed Food Ingredients Used To Minimize Oxidative Flavor Deterioration in Meat Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.18.
Antiophidic 2 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant 6 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiozenic 1 (View) *
Antipapillomic 1 (View) *
Antiparkinsonian 1 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperoxidant 1 (View) Planta Medica, 57: A54, 1991.
Antiphenylketonuric 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antiphotophobic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antipityriasic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiPMS 1 (View) *
Antipolio 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antiporphyric 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 (View) Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 2 (View) Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiprostaglandin 3 (View) *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 1 (View) *
Antipsittacotic 1 (View) Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.