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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant 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
CENTELLINIC-ACID 0 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.
CENTELLOSE 0 Plant *
CENTELLOSIDE 0 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.
CENTOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
CHROMIUM 24 Leaf 0.1 1.0 -0.56 *
CINEOLE 0 Essential Oil *
COBALT 2 Leaf 0.8 7.3 -0.26 *
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
ELAIDIC-ACID 2 Plant *
EO 0 Leaf 321.0 6000.0 -0.49 *
EO 0 Plant 3000.0 6000.0 -0.28 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
EPIGLOBULOL 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
FARNESOL 17 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
FAT 0 Leaf 5992.0 56000.0 -0.01 *
FIBER 15 Leaf 20000.0 187000.0 0.31 *
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Leaf 187000.0 1.56 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Leaf 302000.0 -0.87 *
FURAN-2-CARBOXALDEHYDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Essential Oil 4000.0 -0.77 Jim Duke's personal files.
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiallergic 6 (View) *
Antialopecic 5 (View) *
Antialzheimeran 5 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 1 (View) Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 (View) *
Antianaphylactic 3 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 4 (View) Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 2 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antianginal 2 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic 3 (View) *
Antianorectic 2 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety 2 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarabiflavinotic 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Antiarrhythmic 3 (View) *
Antiarteriosclerotic 2 (View) *
Antiarthritic 9 (View) *
Antiasthmatic 6 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatheromic 1 (View) Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic 6 (View) *