Plant Balanites aegyptiacus (Balanitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Desert Date, Soapberry Tree, dattier du desert (Fr.), dattier sauvage (Fr.), heglik (Fr.), Zachunbaum (Ger.), betu (India), hingotia (India), lalo (India), zachun (India), mirobalano de Egipto (Sp.)

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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
25-ALPHA-SPIROSTA-3,5-DIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
25-ALPHA-SPIROSTA-3,5-DIENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CAROTENE	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDONIC-ACID	12	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	not available	390.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	52000.0	81000.0	0.63	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	not available	127000.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	33000.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Shoot	not available	66000.0	-0.85	Duke, 1992 *
BALANITESIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-GLUCOSIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	1300.0	3800.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Shoot	not available	4800.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	791000.0	886000.0	0.55	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	not available	715000.0	0.82	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Shoot	not available	644000.0	0.30	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	0.0	17000.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *

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