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

Common Names

Northern Prickly Ash

How this plant is used

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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
IMPERATORIN	25	Fruit	5.0	19.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
ISOIMPERATORIN	8	Fruit	3.0	12.5	1.38	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIFOLINE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIFOLINE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIFOLINE	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNOFLORINE	11	Bark	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNOFLORINE	11	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NITIDINE	5	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NITIDINE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NITIDINE	5	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-METHYLTYRAMINE-N-METHYL-CINNAMIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSORALEN	31	Fruit	4.0	15.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESINS	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SKIMMIANINE	21	Bark	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SKIMMIANINE	21	Bl	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAMBETARINE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antineoplastic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuromuscular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperistaltic	1	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Antipharyngitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiphotooxidative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipityriasic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiplasmodial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplatelet	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprostaglandin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antipsoriac	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antipyretic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiradicular	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.