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
Antitumor (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist	2	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	7	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	1	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Carcinogenic	2	Science News, 146: 421.
Cardioprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.