Plant Centella asiatica (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Gotu Kola; Pennywort

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
MESOINOSITAL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	=ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp
METHANOL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYO-INOSITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	not available	6000.0	-0.37	Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE	22	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
N-DODECANE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
NEROLIDOL	11	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
NIACIN	39	Leaf	12.0	112.0	0.18	Duke, 1992 *
NON-3-EN-2-ONE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
OCT-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYASIATICOSIDE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
P-CYMOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
P-VINYL-GUAIACOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Leaf	6420.0	60000.0	0.85	Duke, 1992 *
PETAN-1-AL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PHELLANDRENE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	300.0	2800.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metal-Chelator (Copper)	1	Seidel, V., Verholle, M., Malard, Y., Tillequin, F., Fruchart, J-C., Duriez, P., Bailleul, F., Teissier, E. 2000. Phenylpropanoids from Ballota nigra L. Inhibit in vitro LDL Peroxidation. Phytotherapy Research, 14(2): 93-98.
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
MMP-9-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mosquitofuge	2	Duke, 1992 *
Motor-Depressant	4	Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Mutagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *