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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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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
THANKUNIC-ACID 0 Plant *
THANKUNISIDE 0 Plant *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 1.5 14.0 1.19 *
THIAMINE 0 Leaf 1.5 14.0 2.14 *
TIN 4 Leaf 1.3 12.0 -0.43 *
TOLUENE 1 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE 2 Plant *
VELLARINE 0 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
WATER 0 Leaf 893000.0 0.43 *
WATER 0 Plant 893000.0 0.52 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
WIDDRENE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
ZINC 77 Bark 3.4 -0.91 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ZINC 77 Leaf 0.4 3.4 -0.51 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insect-Repellent 1 *
Insecticide 5 *
Insectifuge 13 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 3 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulinogenic 4 *
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 10 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 2 Russell, G. B., Phytochemical resources for crop protection, N. Z. J. Technol., 2, 1986, 127-134.
Larvicide 1 *
Larvistat 1 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative 3 *
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Lipolytic 1 *
Lipotropic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.