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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Calotropis sp. (Asclepiadaceae)

Common Names
Giant Milkweed
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
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 139000.0 190000.0 0.58 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 39900.0 54900.0 0.43 *
PROCEROSIDE 0 Latex Exudate *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 270000.0 301000.0 0.60 *
PSEUDOCALOTROPAGENIN 0 Plant *
RHAMNOSE 0 Leaf *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed *
SYRIOGENIN 0 Latex Exudate *
TARAXASTEROL 2 Bark *
TARAXASTEROL-BENZOATE 0 Plant *
TRYPSIN 0 Latex Exudate *
USCHARIDIN 2 Latex Exudate *
USCHARIN 1 Latex Exudate *
UZARIGENIN 2 Latex Exudate *
VORUSCHARIN 0 Latex Exudate *
WATER 0 Seed 74000.0 -0.59 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 3 (View) *
Acetylcholinergic 1 (View) *
Allergenic 2 (View) *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Analgesic 2 (View) *
Androgenic 1 (View) *
Anemiagenic 1 (View) *
Angiogenic 1 (View) *
Anorexic 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Antiacne 1 (View) *
Antiadenomic 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Antialopecic 3 (View) *
Antianaphylactic 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 4 (View) Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 (View) *
Antiarthritic 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antibacterial 1 (View) Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer (Breast) 1 (View) Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 (View) *