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

Common Names

Bird Of Paradise

How this plant is used

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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
2,6-DIMETHOXYBENZOQUINONE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4'-METHYLISOLIQUIRITIGENIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-BETA-CINNAMOYL-7-BETA-HYDROXY-VOUACAPEN-5-ALPHA-OL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHOXYPULCHERRIMIN	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8,9,11,14-DIDEHYDROVOUACAPEN-5-ALPHA-OL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-METHOXYBONDUCELLIN	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CAESALPIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BONDUCELLIN	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGITANNIN	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOMANNAN	0	Seed	not available	344000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOMANNOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCODELPHINIDIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL-ACETATE	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	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
Antiherpetic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	6	Tan, G.T., Pezzuto, J.M., Kinghorn,* A.D., Hughes, S.H. Evaluation Of Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 143-154, 1991.
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperglycemic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antihyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antileukotriene	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	4	Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary*, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimelanomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMRSA	1	Duke, 1992 *