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

Common Names

Gum Arabic; Gum Arabic Tree; Kher; Senegal Gum; Sudan Gum Arabic

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
SUCROSE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
URONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
UVAOL	6	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
VALINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.

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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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	1	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	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Analgesic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAddisonian	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiaflatoxin	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	2	Duke, 1992 *