Plant Calotropis sp. (Asclepiadaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Giant Milkweed

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
3-O-ACETYL-CALOTROPIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN-BENZOATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CALOTROPEOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LACTUCEROL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LACTUCERYL-ACETATE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LACTUCERYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCLEPIIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	65500.0	0.53	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOYLISOLINEOLONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOYLLINEOLONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN-BENZOATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CALOTROPEOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALACTIN	1	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALOTOXIN	1	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALOTROPAGENIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALOTROPIN	3	Latex Exudate	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
AntiMeniere's	1	Martindale's 28th
Antimenorrhagic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimigraine	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiMS	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprostaglandin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antitumor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	1	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.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral	3	Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.