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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
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.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Histaminic 1 Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hyperthermic 2 HerbalGram No. 22 - Spring 1990, page 45.
Hypnotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic 13 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 7 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 10 Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 8 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 6 Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant 2 Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 2 Duke, 1992 *