Plant Areca catechu (Arecaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Betel Nut; Pin-Lang

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
DIOSGENIN	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	44000.0	180000.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Shoot	3000.0	23000.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	159000.0	181000.0	0.36	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTAN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUVACINE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUVACOLINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HENEICOSANIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOMOARECOLINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	15.0	70.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Shoot	20.0	147.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
ISOGUVACINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KRYPTOGENIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Seed	22000.0	90000.0	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOPELARGONIDINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	not available	500.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	not available	67.0	0.17	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antitriglyceride	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
Antitumor	4	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Breast)	2	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.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *