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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Annona muricata (Annonaceae)

Common Names
Soursop
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
VIT-B-6 0 Fruit 0.6 3.0 -0.88 *
WATER 0 Fruit 811600.0 832000.0 0.27 *
XYLOSYL-CELLULOSE 0 Plant *
ZINC 77 Fruit 4.0 -0.79 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Ovulant 1 *
Parasiticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Perfumery 3 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 15 *
Phagocytotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Prooxidant 3 *
Propecic 1 *
Prostaglandigenic 2 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
Psychotropic 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.
Pyrogenic 1 Dasgupta, S., Ray, A. B., Bhattacharya, S. K., Bose, R. 1979. Constituents of Pachygone ovata and Pharmacological Action of its Major Leaf Alkaloid. J Nat Prod, 42(4): 399-406.
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Respiraparalytic 1 *
Respirastimulant 2 Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Rodenticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Rubefacient 1 Martindale's 29th
Scabicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.