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
Antidiarrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Aluminum)	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antidote (Cadmium)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Lead)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidysenteric	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiemetic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiencephalitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiendometriotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesophagitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrositic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *