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Plant Areca catechu (Arecaceae)

Common Names
Betel Nut, Pin-Lang
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Sort descending 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.
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Antimastitic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antimastitic) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 (View Chemicals list for Antimeasles) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiMeniere's 1 (View Chemicals list for AntiMeniere's) Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 3 (View Chemicals list for Antimenopausal) Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic 2 (View Chemicals list for Antimenorrhagic) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antimetastatic) Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine 4 (View Chemicals list for Antimigraine) Martindale's 29th
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 (View Chemicals list for Antimitral-valve-prolapse) Duke, 1992 *
AntiMRSA 1 (View Chemicals list for AntiMRSA) Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS 2 (View Chemicals list for AntiMS) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 5 (View Chemicals list for Antimutagenic) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyocarditic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antimyocarditic) Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antinephritic) 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.
Antinephrolytic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antinephrolytic) Duke, 1992 *
Antineuralgic 2 (View Chemicals list for Antineuralgic) Duke, 1992 *
Antineuramidase 1 (View Chemicals list for Antineuramidase) Duke, 1992 *
Antineurasthenic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antineurasthenic) Duke, 1992 *
Antineuritic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antineuritic) Duke, 1992 *
Antineuropathic 2 (View Chemicals list for Antineuropathic) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antineurotic 1 (View Chemicals list for Antineurotic) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.