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	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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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiprostatitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriatic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antipyretic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	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
AntiRaynaud's	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antirhinitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiseptic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antispasmodic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X	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
Antitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitumor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *