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Common Names
Gotu Kola; Pennywort
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISOTHANKUNIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOTHANKUNISIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| KAEMPFEROL | 75 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| KAEMPFEROL | 75 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| KILOCALORIES | 0 | Leaf | 340.0 | 3180.0 | 0.26 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| LIGNOCENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| LIGNOCERIC-ACID | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LIMONENE | 60 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LINALOOL | 53 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LINAMARASE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| M-XYLENE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MADASIATIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| MADECASSIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MADECASSOSIDE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| MADECASSOSIDE | 2 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MAGNESIUM | 65 | Leaf | 342.0 | 3200.0 | -0.36 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANGANESE | 14 | Leaf | 3.0 | 27.7 | -0.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MEDICASSIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| MESO-INOSITOL | 0 | Plant | not available | 15.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiallergic | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialopecic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialzheimeran | 5 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antialzheimeran? | 1 | Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8. |
| Antiamblyopic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianaphylactic | 3 | 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. |
| Antianemic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antianginal | 2 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiangiogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianorectic | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antianorexic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antianxiety | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiarabiflavinotic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiarrhythmic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiarteriosclerotic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiarthritic | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiasthmatic | 6 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiatheromic | 1 | Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990. |
| Antiatherosclerotic | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |