Plant Caesalpinia pulcherrima (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Bird Of Paradise

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
MYRICETIN	34	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETOL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICITRIN	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICITRIN-3-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PULCHERRALPIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PULCHERRIMIN	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	not available	7000.0	-1.26	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Wood	not available	3000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VOUACAPEN-5-ALPHA-OL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
X-CAESALPIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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
TOPO-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Antagonist	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999.
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uricosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vasomotor-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	4	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229