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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Acacia farnesiana (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Cassie; Huisache; Sweet Acacia; Opopanax; Popinac
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NEROLIDOL 11 Flower Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
NIACIN 39 Leaf 85.0 457.0 4.37 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NITROGEN 0 Leaf 12800.0 68800.0 1.25 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NONACOSANE 2 Flower Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
NONACOSANE 2 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 4200.0 16000.0 -0.85 *
P-CRESOL 8 Flower Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Flower Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 2400.0 9500.0 -0.50 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf 2800.0 15020.0 1.22 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 1450.0 1500.0 -1.20 Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 840.0 4519.0 -0.08 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 2000.0 2700.0 -0.70 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PINITOL 5 Flower Wealth of India.
PIPECOLIC-ACID 2 Plant Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
PROLINE 0 Leaf 4080.0 21890.0 1.54 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 80000.0 430000.0 2.18 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Seed 209000.0 550000.0 2.81 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PRUNIN-O-6'-GALLATE 0 Plant Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
QUERCETIN-3-0-RUTINOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224.
Hypercholesterolemic 1 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Hypnotic 3 Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 12 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 165
Hypolipidemic 1 *
Hypotensive 6 *
Hypothermic 1 *
Hypouricemic 1 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Immunomodulator 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant 1 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 *
Inotropic 1 *
Insecticide 7 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Insectifuge 13 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.