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

Plant Abrus precatorius (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Crab's Eye, Jequerity, Coral Beadplant, Indian Licorice, Licorice Vine, Love Bean, Lucky Bean, Minnie-Minnies, Prayer Beads, Precatory Bean, Red Beadvine, Rosary Pea, Weatherplant, Weathervine, Jequirity Bean
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-ABRINE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5-BETA-CHOLANIC-ACID 0 Seed Wealth of India.
ABRALINE 0 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ABRANIN 0 Seed Wealth of India.
ABRASINE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ABRICIN 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ABRIN 9 Seed 1500.0 *
ABRIN-A 0 Seed Wealth of India.
ABRIN-C 0 Seed Wealth of India.
ABRISIN 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ABRUQUINONE-A 0 Root *
ABRUQUINONE-B 0 Root *
ABRUQUINONE-C 0 Root *
ABRUSGENIC-ACID 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ABRUSGENIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ABRUSLACTONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ABRUSOGENIN 0 Leaf *
ABRUSOSIDE-A 1 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ABRUSOSIDE-B 1 Leaf *
ABRUSOSIDE-C 1 Leaf *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 (View) *
ACE-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Adrenocorticotropic 1 (View) *
Allelochemic 1 (View) Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allergenic 2 (View) *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Amphiestrogenic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Analgesic 3 (View) *
Androgenic 1 (View) *
Anemiagenic 1 (View) *
Angiogenic 1 (View) *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 1 (View) *
Anorexic 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Antiacne 1 (View) *
AntiAddisonian 1 (View) *
Antiadenomic 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenovirus 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiallergenic 1 (View) Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 2 (View) *
Antialopecic 3 (View) *