Plant Viburnum opulus (Adoxaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Crampbark; European Cranberry Bush; Guelder Rose; Snowballbush

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Subspecies

var. opulus

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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
METHYL-ARBUTIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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.
MYRICYL-ALCOHOL	0	Bark	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.
MYRICYL-ALCOHOL	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC ACID GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OPULUS IRIDOID I	0	Leaf	3000.0	7300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OPULUS IRIDOID II	0	Leaf	not available	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OPULUS IRIDOID III	0	Leaf	not available	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OPULUS IRIDOID IV	0	Leaf	not available	200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PAEONISIDE	0	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.
PAEONOSIDE	1	Flower	not available	1200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Bark	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.
PECTIN	24	Fruit	not available	50000.0	-0.04	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Bark	not available	650.0	-0.47	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
POTASSIUM	14	Bark	not available	7360.0	0.29	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Peroxynitrite-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	26	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytohormonal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pigment	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Hung, H.C., Lai, M.W., Wang, H.R., Chung, Y.L., Hsieh, L.M., Chen, C.C. 1993. Antiproliferative Effect of Esculetin on Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Possible Roles of Signal Transduction Pathways. Eur J Pharmacol, 237(1): 39-44.