Cordia alliodora herb health benefit and published trials

Cordia alliodora root is used as a medicinal plant by natives living in the Peruvian Amazon forest. Cordia alliodora root has substances which have anti-microbial and anti-fungal properties. No studies with humans with the herb cordia alliodora was found on a Medline search in March 2009.

Antifungal and larvicidal compounds from the root bark of Cordia alliodora.
J Nat Prod. 2000 March. Ioset JR, Marston A, Gupta MP, Hostettmann K. Ioset JR, Marston A, Gupta MP, Hostettmann K. Institut de Pharmacognosie et Phytochimie, Université de Lausanne, BEP, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Cordia alliodora root bark has a phenylpropanoid derivative characterized as 1-(3'-methoxypropanoyl)-2,4,5-trimethoxybenzene and a prenylated hydroquinone, 2-(2Z)-(3-hydroxy-3,7-dimethylocta-2, 6-dienyl)-1,4-benzenediol.  Both compounds have antifungal properties against the phytopathogenic mold Cladosporium cucumerinum. The phenylpropanoid derivative, whose structure is closely related to beta-asarone, also activity against larvae of the yellow-fever-transmitting mosquito Aedes aegypti.
 

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