Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Balanites aegyptiacus (Balanitaceae)

Common Names
Desert Date, Soapberry Tree, dattier du desert (Fr.), dattier sauvage (Fr.), heglik (Fr.), Zachunbaum (Ger.), betu (India), hingotia (India), lalo (India), zachun (India), mirobalano de Egipto (Sp.)
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
25-ALPHA-SPIROSTA-3,5-DIENE 0 Plant *
25-ALPHA-SPIROSTA-3,5-DIENE 0 Seed *
ALPHA-CAROTENE 7 Seed *
ARACHIDONIC-ACID 12 Seed *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 390.0 -0.26 *
ASH 0 Fruit 52000.0 81000.0 0.63 *
ASH 0 Leaf 127000.0 0.14 *
ASH 0 Seed 33000.0 -0.45 *
ASH 0 Shoot 66000.0 -0.85 *
BALANITESIN 0 Seed *
BERGAPTEN 26 Bark *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Bark *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 1300.0 3800.0 -0.01 *
CALCIUM 28 Shoot 4800.0 -0.73 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 791000.0 886000.0 0.55 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 715000.0 0.82 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Shoot 644000.0 0.30 *
DIOSGENIN 7 Fruit *
FAT 0 Fruit 0.0 17000.0 -0.51 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 5 (View) *
Acetylcholinergic 1 (View) *
Acidulant 1 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View) Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Allergenic 1 (View) *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Analgesic 1 (View) *
Androgenic 1 (View) *
Anemiagenic 1 (View) *
Angiogenic 1 (View) *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 2 (View) *
Anorexic 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Antiacne 1 (View) *
Antiadenomic 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
AntiAGE 1 (View) Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 2 (View) *
Antiaging 1 (View) *
Antiallergic 2 (View) *
Antialopecic 3 (View) *
Antialzheimeran 1 (View) *