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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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 Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TANNIN 35 Seed 150000.0 250000.0 2.11 *
THIAMIN 31 Seed 1.7 1.9 -1.12 *
WATER 0 Seed 123000.0 313000.0 0.33 *
WATER 0 Sprout Seedling 864000.0 0.53 *
ZINC 77 Seed 16.0 -0.83 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 3 *
Antimenorrhagic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 1 *
Antimigraine 4 Martindale's 29th
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 *
AntiMRSA 1 *
AntiMS 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyocarditic 1 *
Antinephritic 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.
Antinephrolytic 1 *
Antineuralgic 2 *
Antineuramidase 1 *
Antineurasthenic 1 *
Antineuritic 1 *
Antineuropathic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antineurotic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.