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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Vitex agnus-castus (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Chaste-Tree
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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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
BETA-PINENE 13 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit 600.0 4000.0 -0.17 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil 8300.0 -0.68 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf 2.5 -0.43 Ekundayo, O., Laakso, I., Holopainen, M., Hiltunen, R., Oguntimein, B., and Kauppinen, V. 1990. The Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of the Leaf Oil of Vitex agnus-castus L. J. Essential Oil Research, 2: 115-119.
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 9800.0 -0.55 Jim Duke's personal files.
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Flower *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Fruit *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Leaf *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Fruit 80.0 800.0 1.41 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Leaf 0.2 -0.41 Ekundayo, O., Laakso, I., Holopainen, M., Hiltunen, R., Oguntimein, B., and Kauppinen, V. 1990. The Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of the Leaf Oil of Vitex agnus-castus L. J. Essential Oil Research, 2: 115-119.
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf 0.2 14.0 -0.19 *
CAMPHOR 41 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPHOR 41 Fruit 80.0 800.0 0.66 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Leaf 1.6 -0.45 Ekundayo, O., Laakso, I., Holopainen, M., Hiltunen, R., Oguntimein, B., and Kauppinen, V. 1990. The Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of the Leaf Oil of Vitex agnus-castus L. J. Essential Oil Research, 2: 115-119.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Leaf Essent. Oil 11700.0 0.61 Jim Duke's personal files.
CASTICIN 6 Fruit 1000.0 *
CASTICIN 6 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadenomic 1 *
Antiaflatoxin 1 *
Antiaggregant 2 *
Antiallergic 5 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 1 *
Antialzheimeran? 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 1 *
Antianemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiangiogenic 1 *
Antiarrhythmic 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 *
Antiarthritic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiasthmatic 2 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis., 4:203, 1982.
Antiatherogenic 1 *
Antibacillary 1 *
Antibacterial 20 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibradiquinic 1 Fitoterapia No.61: 277, 1990.
Antibronchitic 1 *
Anticancer 4 *