Plant Calotropis sp. (Asclepiadaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Giant Milkweed

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
3-O-ACETYL-CALOTROPIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN-BENZOATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CALOTROPEOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LACTUCEROL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LACTUCERYL-ACETATE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LACTUCERYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCLEPIIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	65500.0	0.53	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOYLISOLINEOLONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOYLLINEOLONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN-BENZOATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CALOTROPEOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALACTIN	1	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALOTOXIN	1	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALOTROPAGENIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALOTROPIN	3	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiacne	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antialopecic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antibacterial	1	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
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 *