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
PINITOL	5	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PINOPICRIN	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PINOTANNIC-ACID	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINOVIGEC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESINIC-ACID	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHODOXANTHIN	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINIC-ACID	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SEQUOYITOL	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Branches	not available	59000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL	18	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THAPSIC-ACID	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIANIC-ACID	1	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
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Mucolytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Myorelaxant	3	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Nematicide	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neurogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Occuloirritant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Osteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *