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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
METHYL-4-HYDROXYBENZOATE 0 Plant *
MUSSAENOSIDIC-ACID 0 Shoot *
MYRCENE 22 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE 22 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE 22 Leaf 3.0 -0.17 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.
MYRCENE 22 Leaf Essent. Oil 18000.0 -0.30 Jim Duke's personal files.
MYZODENDRONE 0 Shoot *
ORIENTIN 4 Fruit *
ORIENTIN 4 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ORIENTIN 4 Shoot 70.0 *
ORTHOCYMOL 0 Flower Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ORTHOCYMOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ORTHOCYNOL 0 Leaf *
P-CYMEN-8-OL 0 Leaf 0.5 -0.83 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.
P-CYMENE 16 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE 16 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf 10.0 -0.39 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.
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf Essent. Oil 14400.0 -0.56 Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMOL 0 Fruit 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.
P-HYDROXYBENZOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Carminative 3 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Cathartic 1 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Chemopreventive 3 *
Choleretic 4 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Cicatrizant 1 *
CNS-Depressant 1 *
CNS-Stimulant 2 *
Coleoptophile 1 *
Collagenic 1 *
Comedolytic 1 *
Convulsant 3 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Chelator 1 *
Cosmetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 2 Martindale's 28th
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 *
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 1 *
Cytotoxic 5 Arisawa, M., Hayashi, T., Shimizu, M., Morita, N., Bai, H., Kuze, S., and Ito, Y. Isolation And Cytotoxicity Of Two New Flavonoids From Chrysosplenium grayanum And Related Flavonols. J. Natural Products, 54(3): 898-901, 1991.