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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Zanthoxylum americanum (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Northern Prickly Ash
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
IMPERATORIN 25 Fruit 5.0 19.0 -0.10 *
ISOIMPERATORIN 8 Fruit 3.0 12.5 1.38 *
LAURIFOLINE 0 Bark Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
LAURIFOLINE 0 Root *
LAURIFOLINE 0 Root Bark *
LAURIFOLINE 0 Stem Bark *
MAGNOFLORINE 11 Bark Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
MAGNOFLORINE 11 Root Bark *
MAGNOFLORINE 11 Stem Bark *
NITIDINE 5 Bark *
NITIDINE 5 Plant *
NITIDINE 5 Root Bark *
O-METHYLTYRAMINE-N-METHYL-CINNAMIDE 0 Plant *
PSORALEN 31 Fruit 4.0 15.0 -0.46 *
RESIN 0 Plant *
RESINS 0 Bark Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SKIMMIANINE 21 Bark Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
SKIMMIANINE 21 Leaf *
SKIMMIANINE 21 Bl *
TAMBETARINE 0 Bark Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Respiradepressant 1 Martindale's 28th
Respirainhibitor 1 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor 1 *
RNA-Depressant 1 *
RT-Inhibitor 1 *
Sedative 3 *
Spermicide 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Stomachic 1 *
Tetanic 1 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 3 Kobayashi, Y, Yamashita, Y., Fujii, N., Takaboshi, K., Kawakami, T., Kawamura, M., Mizukami, T., Nakano, H. 1995. Inhibitors of DNA Topoisomerase I and II Isolated From the Coptis Rhizomes. Planta Medica, 61: 414-418.
Toxic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Trichomonicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Trypanocide 1 *
Ubiquiot 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 1 *
Uterocontractant 2 *
Uterotonic 1 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Vagostimulant 1 *
Vasoconstrictor 1 *