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
DOCOSANYL-ACETATE	0	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	150000.0	510000.0	1.29	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONTANE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTACOSAN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTANOIC-ACID	0	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXADECANOIC-ACID	0	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXANOIC-ACID	2	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
M-COUMARIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-EUGENOL	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-HEPTANONE	0	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
Antiatherosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	16	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Anticancer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	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)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Biosyn. Prod. Cancer Chemotherapy (Petit et al)
Anticariogenic	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Anticataract	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticold	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticomplement	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.