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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Agave sisalana (Agavaceae)

Common Names
Mescal; Sisal; Hemp Plant; Sisal Agave; Sisal Hemp
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
12-EPIROCKOGENIN 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
5-ALPHA-PREGNAN-3-BETA,20-BETA-DIOL 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
ALPHA-CELLULOSE 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
BARBOURGENIN 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Leaf Wealth of India.
CHLOROGENIN 3 Leaf Wealth of India.
DELTA-9,10-DEHYDROHECOGENIN 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
DELTA-9,11-HECOGENIN 0 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
DIOSGENIN 7 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GENTROGENIN 0 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GITOGENIN 1 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HAINANGENIN 0 Leaf *
HAINANGENIN 0 Plant *
HECOGENIN 0 Plant 300.0 4100.0 -1.00 *
HECONIN 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
HENTRIACONTAN-1-OL 0 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
HONGGUANGGENIN 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
NEOTIGOGENIN 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NEOTIGOGENONE 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
PECTIN 24 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 *
Antitumor (Colon) 1 *
Antitumor (Lung) 1 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 1 *
Antitussive 1 *
Antiulcer 1 *
Antiviral 1 Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Apoptotic 1 *
Artemicide 1 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Cancer-Preventive 2 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 1 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Chemopreventive 1 *
Demulcent 1 *
Estrogenic 2 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fungicide 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemostat 1 *
Hepatoprotective 2 *