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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ISOTHANKUNIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ISOTHANKUNISIDE 0 Plant *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant *
KILOCALORIES 0 Leaf 340.0 3180.0 0.26 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LIGNOCENE 0 Plant 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 *
LIMONENE 60 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALOOL 53 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
LINAMARASE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Plant *
M-XYLENE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
MADASIATIC-ACID 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
MADECASSIC-ACID 0 Plant *
MADECASSOSIDE 2 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MADECASSOSIDE 2 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 342.0 3200.0 -0.36 *
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 3.0 27.7 -0.41 *
MEDICASSIC-ACID 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
MESO-INOSITOL 0 Plant 15.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Expectorant 8 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 16 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 9 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 1 *
GABA-nergic 1 *
Gastroprotective 1 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
GST-Inducer 1 *
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat 2 *
Hepatomagenic 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 6 *
Hepatotoxic 1 *
Herbicide 5 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.