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
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-RUTINOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	60.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE-7-O-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	56.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-RUTINOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	44.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-[6''-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSYL-6''-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL]-BETA-DD-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	185.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE-BETA-L-RHAMNOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Flower	0.9	2.2	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTINASE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTINOSE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SINIGRIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	not available	850.0	-0.50	Wealth of India.
STEARIC-ACID	8	Flower	not available	348.0	0.13	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
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th
Diuretic	3	Duke, 1992 *
DME-Inhibitor	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor	5	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Goitrogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemorrhagic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.