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

Common Names

Chaste-Tree

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	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
BETA-PINENE	13	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE	13	Fruit	600.0	4000.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	8300.0	-0.68	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf	not available	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	not available	9800.0	-0.55	Jim Duke's personal files.
BICYCLOGERMACRENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	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	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Flower	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Leaf	not available	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	not available	11700.0	0.61	Jim Duke's personal files.
CASTICIN	6	Fruit	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASTICIN	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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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
Antitussive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	10	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Martindale's 29th
Apoptotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteriostatic	1	Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Barbituate-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bronchoprotectant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bronchorelaxant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist	2	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Sparing	1	Martindale's 29th
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	12	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Candidistat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	5	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses