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
ASH	0	Leaf	not available	98000.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CATECHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	not available	27400.0	0.61	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	not available	726000.0	0.91	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHINS	1	Exocarp	25000.0	330000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHUIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHUTANNIC-ACID	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-ARABINOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-GALACTOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-GLUCURONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-XYLOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIAMINO-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROKAEMPFEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DL-CATECHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DL-EPICATECHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPICATECHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	not available	46000.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	not available	226000.0	0.80	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
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	1	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	2	Meckes, M., Calzada, F., Tapia-Contreras, A., Cedillo-Rivera, R. 1999. Antiprotozoal Properties of Helianthemum glomeratum. Phytotherapy Research, 13(2): 102-105.
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Respiraparalytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
RNA-genic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Scolicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Styptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	2	Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	4	Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	4	Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *