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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
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.
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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
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic 1 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic 5 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihypercholesterolemic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.