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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
Select a Results View:
| 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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| CNS-Depressant | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Coagulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cold-preventive | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Collagenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Colorant | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Comedolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cosmetic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Dermatitigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Detoxicant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Diagnostic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Diuretic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| DME-Inhibitor | 1 | Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134. |
| Dye | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Estrogenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| FLavor | 3 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |