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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
25-ALPHA-SPIROSTA-3,5-DIENE 0 Plant *
25-ALPHA-SPIROSTA-3,5-DIENE 0 Seed *
ALPHA-CAROTENE 7 Seed *
ARACHIDONIC-ACID 12 Seed *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 390.0 -0.26 *
ASH 0 Fruit 52000.0 81000.0 0.63 *
ASH 0 Leaf 127000.0 0.14 *
ASH 0 Seed 33000.0 -0.45 *
ASH 0 Shoot 66000.0 -0.85 *
BALANITESIN 0 Seed *
BERGAPTEN 26 Bark *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Bark *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 1300.0 3800.0 -0.01 *
CALCIUM 28 Shoot 4800.0 -0.73 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 791000.0 886000.0 0.55 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 715000.0 0.82 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Shoot 644000.0 0.30 *
DIOSGENIN 7 Fruit *
FAT 0 Fruit 0.0 17000.0 -0.51 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.
Molluscicide 1 *
Mucolytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Mutagenic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Myocontractant 1 *
Nematicide 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 4 *
Phototoxic 1 *
Piscicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Previtamin-A 1 *
Propecic 4 *
Pyrogenic 1 Kandasamy, S. B. 1977. Central Effect of 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic Acid (Arachidonic Acid) on the Temperature in the Conscious Rabbit. Experientia, 33: 1626.
Soap 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spermicide 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tranquilizer 1 *
Ubiquiot 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.