Plant Hemidesmus indicus (Asclepiadaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Indian Sarsaparilla

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
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN-ACETATE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DESININE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Root	1600.0	2250.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
HEMIDESMOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEMIDESTEROL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXATRIACONTANE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPEROSIDE	30	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL-ACETATE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL-OCTACOSANOATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXY-SALICYLIC-ALDEHYDE	0	Root	1280.0	1800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS	0	Leaf	not available	25000.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity Sort descending	Chemical Count	Reference
5-HT-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for 5-HT-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2 (View Chemicals list for Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	1 (View Chemicals list for Allelochemic)	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	3 (View Chemicals list for Analgesic)	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Androgenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Angiogenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1 (View Chemicals list for Anorexic)	Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiadenomic)	Merck 11th Edition
Antiaggregant	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiaggregant)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiaging)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiallergic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiandrogenic)	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiangiogenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiapoplectic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiapoplectic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiatherogenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiatherosclerotic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	3 (View Chemicals list for Antibacterial)	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer	2 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer)	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer (Breast))	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.