Plant Vanilla planifolia (Orchidaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Vanilla; Bourbon Vanilla

How this plant is used

Food

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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
P-HYDROXYMETHYL-BENZOATE	0	Fruit	not available	36.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROZYBENZYL-METHYL-ETHER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYBENZOIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	49.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-VINYL-GUAIACOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	not available	258.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
PENTACOS-1-ENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTACOSENE	0	Fruit	not available	39.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	24.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL	26	Fruit	not available	28.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	not available	700.0	-0.76	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PIPERONAL	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERONAL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	26000.0	100000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUALDEHYDE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
RESIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SALICYLATES	7	Essential Oil	10.0	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antipseudomonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsittacotic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac	2	Pandeya, S.N. 1970. Biological Activity of Adamantyl Derivatives. The Indian Journal of Pharmacy, 33: 7.
Antipyretic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyruvetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiradicular	9	Planta Medica, 56(6): 695, 1990.
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.
Antirheumatic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antisclerodermic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiseborrheic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	21	Duke, 1992 *
Antiserotonin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antisickling	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antisinusitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antispasmodic	8	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispastic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antistaphylococcic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 197.
Antistress	1	Duke, 1992 *