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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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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiinflammatory 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiinsomniac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antijet-lag 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiketotic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antilepric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antileukemic 1 *
Antileukodermic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antileukotriene-B4 1 *
Antileukotriene-D4 2 *
Antilithic 1 *
AntiLyme 1 *
Antilymphomic 1 *
Antimaculitic 1 *
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimenopausal 2 *
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimigraine 1 Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic 1 Gawron, A. and Glowniak, K. 1987. Cytostatic Activity of Coumarins in vitro. Planta Medica 1987: 526.
AntiMS 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.