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

Common Names

Umbrella Thorn

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
(+)-CATECHOL	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXY-PIPECOLIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALDOBIOURONIC-ACID	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-6,8-BIS-C-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	51000.0	57000.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	not available	87000.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	59000.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN	13	Heart Wood	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN	13	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	not available	7900.0	0.93	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	not available	22700.0	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	not available	5600.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	462500.0	739000.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	not available	660000.0	0.38	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	not available	506000.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
DJENKOLIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	24400.0	31000.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	not available	61000.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	60000.0	-1.08	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
Immunostimulant	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insulin-Sparing	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Nephrotoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
NO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Pesticide	8	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Huang, C., Tunon, H., Bohlin, L. 1995. Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Isolated from Menyanthes trifoliata L. Yao Hsueh Hsueh Pao, 30(8): 621-626.
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.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	1	Willaimason, G., Plumb, G. W., Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1996. Dietary Quercetin Glycosides: Antioxidant Activity and Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Phase II Marker Enzyme Quinone Reductase in Hepalclc7 Cells. Carcinogenesis 17(11): 2385.
Respirastimulant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Rodenticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Styptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	1	Hamada, S. I., Kataoka, T., Woo, J. T., Yamada, A., Yoshida, T., Nishimura, T., Otake, N., Nagai, K. 1997. Immunosuppressive Effects by Gallic Acid and Chebulagic Acid on CTL-Mediated Cytotoxicity. Biol Pharm Bull, 20: 1017-1019.