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Plant Acacia senegal (Fabaceae)

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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
D-GALACTOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
D-PINITOL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE 5 Leaf not available 30.0 not available Wealth of India.
DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE 5 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ERYTHRODIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
FAT 0 Fruit not available 10000.0 -0.56 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT 0 Leaf not available 67000.0 0.21 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT 0 Seed not available 58000.0 -1.09 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Fruit not available 390000.0 2.34 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Leaf not available 112000.0 -0.61 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Seed not available 137000.0 0.02 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GALACTOGLUCURONIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
GLUCURONIC-ACID 4 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
HCN 9 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
HENTRIACONTAN-1-OL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
HENTRIACONTANE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONTANOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HYDROCYANIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipharyngitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplaque 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiplasmodial 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipoliomyelitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriac 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipyretic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 4 Planta Medica, 56(6): 695, 1990.
AntiRaynaud's 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic 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.