Plant Centella asiatica (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Gotu Kola; Pennywort

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
THANKUNIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THANKUNISIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Leaf	1.5	14.0	1.19	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE	0	Leaf	1.5	14.0	2.14	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Leaf	1.3	12.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
TOLUENE	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VELLARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
WATER	0	Leaf	not available	893000.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	not available	893000.0	0.52	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
WIDDRENE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ZINC	77	Bark	not available	3.4	-0.91	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ZINC	77	Leaf	0.4	3.4	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Pancreas)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	4	Yasukawa, K., Takido, M., Takeuchi, M., Sato, Y., Nitta, K., and Nakagawa, S. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Flavonol Glycosides on 12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate-Induced Tumor Promotion. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(3): 774-776, 1990.
Antitussive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	1	Rafatullah, S., Tariq, M., Al-Yahya, M.A., Mossa, J.S., and Ageel, A.M. 1989. Evaluation of Turmeric (Curcuma longa) for Gastric and Duodenal Antiulcer Activity in Rats. J. of Ethnopharmacology, 29: 25-34, 1990.
Antivaginitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	6	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	9	Duke, 1992 *