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

Plant Gymnema sylvestre (Asclepiadaceae)

Common Names
Gymnema, Miracle Fruit
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
(-)-VIBURNITOL 0 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 152.0 800.0 -0.37 *
ASH 0 Leaf 11400.0 60000.0 -1.04 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 6.0 30.0 -1.01 *
BETAINE 14 Leaf Willaman, J. J., Li, H. L. 1970. Alkaloid-Bearing Plants and their Contained Alkaloids. 1957-1968. Lloydia 33S: 1-286.
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 169.0 890.0 -1.20 *
CHOLINE 20 Leaf Willaman, J. J., Li, H. L. 1970. Alkaloid-Bearing Plants and their Contained Alkaloids. 1957-1968. Lloydia 33S: 1-286.
CHROMIUM 24 Leaf 0.9 4.5 -0.26 *
COBALT 2 Leaf *
CONDURITOL-A 1 Leaf *
FAT 0 Leaf 3990.0 21000.0 -0.71 *
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Leaf 80000.0 -1.24 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Leaf 320000.0 -0.66 *
GURMARIN 0 Leaf *
GYMNEMAGENIN 0 Plant *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-I 0 Leaf 60.0 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-II 0 Leaf 25.0 27.0 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-III 0 Leaf 10.0 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-IV 0 Leaf 12.0 17.0 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-V 0 Leaf 133.0 160.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Abortifacient 1 (View) *
ACE-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Acidulant 1 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 2 (View) Miyatake, K., et al. 1994. Effect of Conduritol A, a Polyol from Gymnema sylvestre, on the Development of Diabetic Cataracts in Streptozotocin-Treated Rats and on Aldose Reductase. Biosci Biotech Biochem, 58(4): 756-757.
Allergenic 2 (View) *
Amphiglycemic? 1 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic 3 (View) *
Androgenic? 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 2 (View) *
Anorexic 1 (View) Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Antiacne 4 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 (View) *
AntiAGE 2 (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 3 (View) *
Antiaging 3 (View) *
Antiakathisic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 3 (View) Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic 3 (View) *
Antialopecic 1 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.