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Plant Viburnum prunifolium (Caprifoliaceae)

Common Names
Black Haw
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
VIBURNUM PRUNIFOLIUM GLUCOSIDE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VIBURNUM PRUNIFOLIUM POLYENE 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VOLATILE ORGANIC ACIDS 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VOLATILE ORGANIC ACIDS 0 Stem Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hyperglycemic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 2 Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
Hypocholesterolemic 3 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypoglycemic 5 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 4 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 5 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Interferonogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Irritant 6 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Keratolytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Larvicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.