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Plant Pterocarpus santalinus (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Red Saunders
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
ACETYL-OLEANOLIC-ACID 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLOLEANOLALDEHYDE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN 13 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CEDROL 3 Wood Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOMERIDIOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DESOXYSANTALIN 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EPILUPEOL 2 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ERYTHRODIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUDES-4(15)-ENE-2,11-DIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HOMOPTEROCARPIN 0 Wood not available 2000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOPTEROCARPIN 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOPTEROCARPOLONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIGENIN 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUP-20(29)-EN-2ALPHA,3BETA-DIOL 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
ACE-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiallergenic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antianaphylactic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antianoxic 1 Yamahara, J., Matsuda, H., Naitoh, Y., Fujimura, H., and Tamai, Y. 1990. Antianoxic Action and Active Constituents of Atractylodis Lanceae Rhizoma. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2033-2034, 1990.
Antiasthmatic 1 Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.
Antibacterial 3 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 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.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic 2 Duke, 1992 *