Plant Citrullus colocynthis (Cucurbitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Colocynth

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
1,26-HEXACOSANOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10,13-DIMETHYLPENTA-13-DECEN-1-AL	0	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELATERIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELATERIN-2-D-GLYCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELATERIN-2-D-GLYCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	1500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELATERIN-2-D-GLYCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Petiole	not available	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELATERIN-2-D-GLYCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Root	not available	490.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELATERIN-2-D-GLYCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	1800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ELATERIN-2-D-GLYCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Stem	not available	1700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-MANNITOL	0	Pericarp	not available	6000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANETHOLE	36	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANISALDEHYDE	7	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	not available	122.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGININE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-D-GLUCOSIDE	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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
Antiacne	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
AntiAGE	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
Antiaggregant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antialcoholic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	4	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antialopecic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarrhythmic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiasthmatic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *