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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Balanites aegyptiacus (Balanitaceae)

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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
RIBOSE 0 Seed *
SAPOGENIN 0 Fruit 7200.0 40800.0 *
SAPOGENIN 0 Seed 7400.0 17400.0 *
SAPONIN 0 Fruit 70000.0 1.00 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 42000.0 77000.0 1.11 *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 380000.0 400000.0 0.77 *
XYLOSE 3 Seed *
YAMOGENIN 0 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 5 *
Acetylcholinergic 1 *
Acidulant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 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
Allergenic 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Analgesic 1 *
Androgenic 1 *
Anemiagenic 1 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 2 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiacne 1 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
AntiAGE 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
Antiaggregant 2 *
Antiaging 1 *
Antiallergic 2 *
Antialopecic 3 *
Antialzheimeran 1 *