Plant Thuja occidentalis (Cupressaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Arbor-Vitae; Northern White-Cedar

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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-BORNEOL	3	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-NONACOSANOL	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-EUDESMOL	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJAPLICIN	1	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-EUDESMOL	13	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-THUJAPLICIN	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE	12	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-ALPHA-PINENE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-ALPHA-THUJONE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-CHIRO-INOSITOL	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Branches	6000.0	10000.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	150000.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Branches	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
Antiacetylcholine	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiadenomic	2	Merck 11th Edition
AntiAGE	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant	2	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaging	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiandrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianoxic	1	Yamahara, J., Matsuda, H., Naitoh, Y., Fujimura, H., and Tamai, Y. 1990. Antianoxic Action and Active Constituents of Atractylodis Lanceae Rhizoma. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2033-2034, 1990.
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	11	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibronchitic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.