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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Adansonia digitata (Bombacaceae)

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Medicinal
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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
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Bark Jim Duke's personal files.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 40800.0 98940.0 1.34 Wealth of India.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Anthelmintic 1 *
Antialopecic 1 *
Antiandrogenic 1 *
Antibacterial 1 *
Anticancer 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticarcinomic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiedemic 1 *
Antifibrinolytic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
AntiHIV 1 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 Recio, M., et al. 1994. Investigations on the Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Triterpenoids from Diospyros leucomelas*. Planta Medica, 61: 9.
Antileukemic 1 *
Antimalarial 1 *
Antimelanomic 1 New York Times, 3/28/95.
Antinociceptive 1 *
Antioxidant 1 *
Antiplasmodial 1 *
Antitumor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral 1 *
Apoptotic 1 *