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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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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 *
Hypotensive 4 *
Hypouricemic 1 *
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 *
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 *
Lipolytic 1 *
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 *
Memory-Enhancer 1 Science News, 138: 189, 1990.