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
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRIC-ACID	3	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL	53	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLINE	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLOCYNTHEIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLOCYNTHIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLOSIDE-A	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-B	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-E	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-E-2-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-J-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-L	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-L-GLYCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANOIC-ACID	3	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROELATERICIN-B	0	Fruit	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
AntiTNF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Kidney)	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antitumor (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Pancreas)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	3	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antiulcer	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral	11	Duke, 1992 *