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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Tsuga canadensis (Pinaceae)

Common Names
Eastern Hemlock
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Branches *
BETULIN 13 Bark Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN 13 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN 13 Twig Jim Duke's personal files.
CADINENE 4 Branches *
EO 0 Branches 4000.0 4600.0 -1.14 *
GALACTOGLUCOMANNAN 0 Wood *
GALACTOGLUCOMANNOGLYCAN 0 Wood *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Branches *
L-ALPHA-PINENE 0 Branches *
L-BORNEOL 0 Branches *
L-BORNYL-ACETATE 0 Branches *
L-CAMPHENE 0 Branches *
L-LIMONENE 2 Branches *
MYRCENE 22 Branches 104.0 120.0 *
PICEATANNOL 8 Bark 8000.0 10000.0 *
PINITOL 5 Branches *
TANNIN 35 Bark 100000.0 150500.0 0.08 *
TANNIN 35 Leaf 15000.0 -1.17 *
TANNIN 35 Root Bark 245000.0 0.55 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antidysenteric 1 *
Antifeedant 3 *
Antifertility 1 Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antiflu 1 *
Antigingivitic 1 *
Antihepatotoxic 1 *
Antiherpetic 1 Amoros, M., Simoes, C.M.O., Girre, L., et al. Synergistic Effect Of Flavones And Flavonols Against Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 In Cell Culture. Comparison With The Antiviral Activity Of Propolis. J. of Natural Products 55(12):1732-1740, 1992.
Antihistaminic 1 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
AntiHIV 2 *
Antihypertensive 1 *
Antiimplantation 1 *
Antiinflammatory 2 Recio, M., et al. 1994. Investigations on the Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Triterpenoids from Diospyros leucomelas*. Planta Medica, 61: 9.
Antileukemic 2 Life Sciences 55: 1061.
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimutagenic 3 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Antinephritic 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.
Antinitrosaminic 1 *
Antinociceptive 1 Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.
Antiophidic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.