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
Antiradicular	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiRaynaud's	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirhinitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiseptic	6	Merck 11th Edition
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antispasmodic	8	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antistaphylococcic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyncopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X	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
Antithrombogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *