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

Common Names

Black Cutch; Catechu

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Download these results as:

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 *

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
AntiMRSA	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic	8	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Antimyocarditic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinephritic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephrolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineurotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antinitrosaminic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antionychyotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoarthritic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiosteoporotic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiototic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antioxidant	11	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipancreatitic	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiperiodontal	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiperiodontic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontitic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.