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
FAT	0	Leaf	not available	42000.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	300000.0	550000.0	1.50	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Shoot	not available	15000.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	not available	102000.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	not available	136000.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Shoot	not available	233000.0	0.61	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	120000.0	220000.0	0.97	Duke, 1992 *
MARMESIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	81000.0	135000.0	0.13	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	57000.0	104500.0	1.46	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	not available	4000.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Shoot	not available	3800.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	61000.0	111000.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	not available	116000.0	-0.96	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	219000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Shoot	not available	275000.0	0.58	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypocholesterolemic	8	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	2	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insecticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insulinogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lubricant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Mastogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.