Plant Amaranthus spinosus (Amaranthaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Spiny pigweed

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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
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL-OCTACOSANOATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL-SAPONIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	98.0	5030.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	26000.0	240000.0	2.13	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	65.0	408.0	0.64	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	4760.0	53335.0	2.38	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	74000.0	606450.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
FAT	0	Leaf	3000.0	45000.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	13000.0	104000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONTANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
IRON	6	Leaf	22.0	1965.0	4.06	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Leaf	450.0	2760.0	-0.42	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MUCILAGE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NIACIN	39	Leaf	14.0	86.0	-0.14	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NICOTINIC-ACID	11	Leaf	3.0	19.0	-1.70	Wealth of India.
OLEANOLIC-ACID-SAPONIN	0	Root	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
Antiallergic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antianxiety	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiapoplectic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarrhythmic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarthritic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	2	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.