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

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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiedemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifeedant	4	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antigastric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiGTF	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	4	Okuda, T., Yoshida, T., and Hatano, T. Antioxidant Effects of Tannins and Related Polyphenols. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.7 p.93.