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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Centella asiatica (Apiaceae)

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
MESOINOSITAL 0 Plant =ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp
METHANOL 2 Plant *
MYO-INOSITOL 0 Plant *
MYRCENE 22 Essential Oil 6000.0 -0.37 Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE 22 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
N-DODECANE 0 Essential Oil *
NEROL 10 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
NEROLIDOL 11 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
NIACIN 39 Leaf 12.0 112.0 0.18 *
NON-3-EN-2-ONE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
OCT-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Plant *
OXYASIATICOSIDE 2 Plant Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
P-CYMOL 0 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
P-VINYL-GUAIACOL 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Plant *
PECTIN 24 Leaf 6420.0 60000.0 0.85 *
PETAN-1-AL 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
PHELLANDRENE 4 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 300.0 2800.0 -0.40 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Collagenic 3 *
Colorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic 1 *
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Convulsant 1 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator 2 *
Cosmetic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 1 Martindale's 28th
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 3 *
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 3 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 1 *
Cytotoxic 4 Biosyn. Prod. Cancer Chemotherapy (Petit et al)
Decongestant 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Demulcent 1 *