Plant Acacia catechu (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Black Cutch; Catechu

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
FISETIN	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVOTANNIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMALDEHYDE	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLO-TANNIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CATECHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSYLURONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOACACATECHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERALDEHYDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-EPICATECHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-LEUCOMACLURIC-GLYCOL-ETHER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-RHAMNOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALATE-DEHYDROGENASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEROXIDASE	0	Plant	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
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	3	Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Detoxicant	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	2	Merck 11th Edition
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	4	Duke, 1992 *