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Common Names
East Indian Walnut; Siris Tree; Frywood; Koko; Lebbek; Lebbek Tree; Women's-Tongue Tree
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CELLULOSE | 1 | Wood | not available | 769000.0 | 1.27 | Wealth of India. |
| D-CATECHIN | 4 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| ECHINOCYSTIC-ACID | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| FAT | 0 | Leaf | 85000.0 | 160000.0 | 2.06 | Wealth of India. |
| FAT | 0 | Seed | not available | 68000.0 | -1.04 | Wealth of India. |
| FIBER | 15 | Leaf | 176000.0 | 190000.0 | 0.35 | Wealth of India. |
| FIBER | 15 | Seed | not available | 42000.0 | -0.73 | Wealth of India. |
| FRIEDELIN | 2 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| HISTIDINE | 7 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| IRON | 6 | Seed | not available | 115.0 | -0.17 | Wealth of India. |
| ISOLEUCINE | 3 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| KAEMPFEROL | 75 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| LEBBECACIDIN | 0 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| LEBBEKANINS | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| LEUCANTHOCYANIDIN | 0 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| LEUCINE | 2 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| LEUCOPELARGONIDIN | 1 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| LIGNIN | 13 | Wood | not available | 220000.0 | -0.92 | Wealth of India. |
| LUPEOL | 21 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| LYSINE | 4 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| 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. |