Plant Vinca minor (Apocynaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Periwinkle; Running-Myrtle

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	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
(+)-ISO-EBURNAMINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-QUEBRACHAMINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-1-NORVINCORINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-16-METHOXY-20-OXO-VINCADIFFORMINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EBURNAMENINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EBURNAMINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EBURNAMONINE	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-MINOVINCINE	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-VINCADIFFORMINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(DL)-EBURNAMONINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(DL)-VINCADIFFORMINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,2-DEHYDROASPIDOSPERMIDINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-METHOXY-DEACETYLAKUAMMILINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-METHOXY-VELLOSIMINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-METHOXY-VINCAMIDINE	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-12-DIMETHOXY-EBURNAMONINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-METHOXY-EBURNAMONINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-METHOXY-MINOVINCINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-METHOXY-MINOVINCININE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-METHOXY-VINCADIFFORMINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Adrenolytic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelopathic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	2	Martindale's 29th
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadrenergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialcoholic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialzheimeran	1	Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215.
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarrhythmic	2	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 407.
Antiarthritic	1	Planta Medica, 57: A56, 1991.