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Plant Adansonia digitata (Bombacaceae)

How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Bark not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 40800.0 98940.0 1.34 Wealth of India.

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5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View Chemicals list for 5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor) Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic 1 (View Chemicals list for Anthelmintic) Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antialopecic) Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antiandrogenic) Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial 1 (View Chemicals list for Antibacterial) Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer 1 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticarcinomic 1 (View Chemicals list for Anticarcinomic) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiedemic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antiedemic) Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrinolytic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antifibrinolytic) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
AntiHIV 1 (View Chemicals list for AntiHIV) Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
Antiinflammatory 1 (View Chemicals list for Antiinflammatory) Recio, M., et al. 1994. Investigations on the Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Triterpenoids from Diospyros leucomelas*. Planta Medica, 61: 9.
Antileukemic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antileukemic) Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 1 (View Chemicals list for Antimalarial) Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antimelanomic) New York Times, 3/28/95.
Antinociceptive 1 (View Chemicals list for Antinociceptive) Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant 1 (View Chemicals list for Antioxidant) Duke, 1992 *
Antiplasmodial 1 (View Chemicals list for Antiplasmodial) Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor 1 (View Chemicals list for Antitumor) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral 1 (View Chemicals list for Antiviral) Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic 1 (View Chemicals list for Apoptotic) Duke, 1992 *