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Plant Caladium bicolor (Araceae)

Common Names

Heart Of Jesus

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity Sort descending	Chemical Count	Reference
Absorbent	1 (View Chemicals list for Absorbent)	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Iodine)	1 (View Chemicals list for Antidote (Iodine))	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antinesidioblastosic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antinesidioblastosic)	Martindale's 29th
Emetic	1 (View Chemicals list for Emetic)	Duke, 1992 *
Emollient	1 (View Chemicals list for Emollient)	Martindale's 29th
Inflammatory	1 (View Chemicals list for Inflammatory)	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	1 (View Chemicals list for Laxative)	Duke, 1992 *
Lithogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Lithogenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1 (View Chemicals list for Poultice)	Martindale's 29th