Plant Capparis spinosa (Capparaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Caper; Caperbush

How this plant is used

Food

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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
L-STACHYDRINE	0	Leaf	not available	100.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Flower	700.0	2115.0	0.11	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	142200.0	183600.0	0.66	Wealth of India.
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Flower	277.0	2162.0	1.36	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	132720.0	165600.0	0.38	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
OXALIC-ACID	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Flower	not available	1123.0	-1.10	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	11060.0	16200.0	-0.37	Wealth of India.
PECTIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSANS	0	Flower	not available	40000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	not available	1350.0	-0.67	Wealth of India.
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	138000.0	179000.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	190000.0	220000.0	-0.12	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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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
Antiplatelet	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipoliomyelitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprotozoal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsittacotic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac	2	Pandeya, S.N. 1970. Biological Activity of Adamantyl Derivatives. The Indian Journal of Pharmacy, 33: 7.
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	5	Planta Medica, 56(6): 695, 1990.
AntiRaynaud's	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.