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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Byrsonima crassifolia (Malpighiaceae)

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 840.0 9275.0 0.29 *
ASH 0 Fruit 6000.0 34885.0 -0.56 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.0 2.8 -0.15 *
BETULIN 13 Leaf 204.7 -0.39 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Leaf 3.4 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
BYRSONIMOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 230.0 1920.0 -0.45 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 144000.0 837210.0 0.29 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT 0 Fruit 13000.0 75580.0 -0.06 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
FIBER 15 Fruit 22000.0 280195.0 1.31 *
IRON 6 Fruit 6.0 118.0 -0.06 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Fruit 660.0 3837.0 0.27 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NIACIN 39 Fruit 3.0 23.0 -0.50 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
OXALIC-ACID 9 Bark 27300.0 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 125.0 100.0 -0.95 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 9000.0 52325.0 -0.77 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.1 2.3 -0.58 *
TANNIN 35 Bark 172500.0 282600.0 1.24 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.1 1.2 -0.53 *
WATER 0 Fruit 793000.0 832000.0 0.27 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipodriac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipoliomyelitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiproliferant 1 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antipsoriac 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipyretic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 2 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antirheumatic 3 *
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseptic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antispasmodic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistress 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
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.