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Plant Albizia lebbeck (Fabaceae)

Common Names
East Indian Walnut; Siris Tree; Frywood; Koko; Lebbek; Lebbek Tree; Women's-Tongue Tree
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
(+)-PINITOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Wealth of India.
ACACIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
ALBIGENIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
ALBIGENIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
ALBIZZIAGENIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
ALPHA-AMYRIN 10 Flower not available not available not available Wealth of India.
ALPHA-CELLULOSE 0 Wood not available 456000.0 0.63 Wealth of India.
ARGININE 14 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed not available 17.0 -0.33 Wealth of India.
ASH 0 Leaf 101000.0 104000.0 -0.26 Wealth of India.
ASH 0 Seed not available 42000.0 -0.18 Wealth of India.
BENZOIC-ACID 20 Flower not available not available not available Wealth of India.
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Flower not available not available not available Wealth of India.
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Flower not available not available not available Wealth of India.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark not available not available not available Wealth of India.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf not available not available not available Wealth of India.
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 10100.0 104000.0 5.85 Wealth of India.
CALCIUM 28 Seed not available 1720.0 -0.45 Wealth of India.
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 525000.0 613000.0 0.01 Wealth of India.
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed not available 495000.0 -0.11 Wealth of India.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antibacterial 9 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer 4 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic 3 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Anticataract 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticlimacteric 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticold 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplement 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.