Plant Centaurium erythraea (Gentianaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Centaury

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
3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMAROGENTIN	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CENTAPICRIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEROTIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CRATAEGOLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERYTHRODIOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERYTHROSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONOIDS	0	Plant	not available	4000.0	-0.84	Duke, 1992 *
GENTIANIDINE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTIANINE	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTIOFLAVINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTIOFLAVONIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTIOPICRIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTIOPICROSIDE	4	Plant	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
Antianaphylactic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarrhythmic	3	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 407.
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	11	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (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.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.