Chemical CUCURBITACIN-B | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Chemical ID

CUCURBITACINB

Ubiquitous

No

List of known dosages
Dosage	Reference
LD50=0.5 (ivn rbt)	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
LD50=5-17 (orl mus)	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp., Merck 11th Edition
LD50=1 (scu mus)	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.

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List of chemical activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Dosage	Reference
Antigibberellin	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cancer-Preventive	not available	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Cytotoxic	2.5 ppt	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insectiphile	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.

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List of chemical plants.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Plant Name	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
Bryonia alba	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Casearia arborea	Root	not available	not available	not available	Beutler, J. A., McCall, K. L., Herbert, K., Herald, D. L., Pettit, G. R., Johnson, T., Shoemaker, R. H., Boyd, M. R. 2000. Novel Cytotoxic Diterpenes from Casearia arborea. J. Natural Products, 63(5): 657-661.
Citrullus colocynthis	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Citrullus lanatus	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Coccinia grandis	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Cucumis melo	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Cucumis sativus	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Cucurbita foetidissima	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Lagenaria siceraria	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Luffa aegyptiaca	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Momordica charantia	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
Picrorhiza kurrooa	Root	not available	47.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *