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Plant Anacardium occidentale (Anacardiaceae)

Common Names
Cashew
How this plant is used
Food

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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
COBALT 2 Seed not available 0.1 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Seed 22.0 37.0 2.01 Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE 2 Seed 2830.0 2879.0 -0.19 Duke, 1992 *
EUROPIUM 0 Seed not available 0.0 -0.53 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Fruit 1000.0 49000.0 -0.27 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Leaf 6000.0 20000.0 -0.73 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 370000.0 482000.0 1.14 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 6000.0 42000.0 -0.94 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Seed 7120.0 29000.0 -0.84 Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE 0 Seed not available 1.4 -0.17 Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN 15 Seed not available 0.7 -0.79 Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID 0 Seed 1390.0 1414.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE 1 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GINGKOL 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCURONIC-ACID 4 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Seed 36240.0 36867.0 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE 12 Seed 8030.0 8169.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
GOLD 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiprostatotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antipsoriac 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antipyretic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinopathic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiretinotic 1 Duke, 1992 *