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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Deodorant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Depressant | 1 | Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp. |
| Dermagenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Dermatitigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Detoxicant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Detoxicant (Alcohol) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Diaphoretic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Diaphoretic? | 2 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90. |
| Differentiator | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Diuretic | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ecbolic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Embryotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Emetic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Encephalopathic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Energizer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Enterocontractant | 1 | J. Aromatherapy 4: 22. |
| Epileptigenic | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Erythrocytogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Estrogenic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |