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
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	9	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	2	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Candidistat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Carminative	1	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic	2	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Stimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Toxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *