Plant Tsuga canadensis (Pinaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Eastern Hemlock

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
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN	13	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN	13	Twig	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CADINENE	4	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Branches	4000.0	4600.0	-1.14	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOGLUCOMANNAN	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOGLUCOMANNOGLYCAN	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-ALPHA-PINENE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-BORNEOL	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-BORNYL-ACETATE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-CAMPHENE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-LIMONENE	2	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Branches	104.0	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PICEATANNOL	8	Bark	8000.0	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PINITOL	5	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	100000.0	150500.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	not available	15000.0	-1.17	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Root Bark	not available	245000.0	0.55	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
Cerebrodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	1	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Choleretic	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Convulsant	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Counterirritant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Dermal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Diuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emmenagogue	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Epileptigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Expectorant	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	3	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	4	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.