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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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
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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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibackache 1 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 20 (View) Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 (View) *
AntiBPH 1 (View) *
Anticancer 7 (View) *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 (View) Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 (View) Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Lung) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 2 (View) *
Anticanker 3 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinomic 2 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 (View) Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticarcinomic (Colon) 1 (View) *
Anticarcinomic (Lung) 1 (View) *
Anticardiospasmic 1 (View) *
Anticariogenic 7 (View) Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 7 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 2 (View) *
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 (View) *