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

Common Names
Caper; Caperbush
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 11060.0 16200.0 -0.21 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TANNIN 35 Plant *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Plant *
THIAMIN 31 Flower 0.7 0.7 -1.34 *
VITAMIN-E 75 Seed 42.0 50.0 Wealth of India.
VITAMIN-E 75 Seed Oil 1340.0 Wealth of India.
WATER 0 Flower 696000.0 795000.0 -0.11 *
WATER 0 Leaf 696000.0 -0.56 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
XYLOSE 3 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 3 *
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 *
Estrogenic 3 *
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 *
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 *
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.