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
AntiPGE2	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplasmodial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipoliomyelitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant	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.
Antiprostaglandin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	6	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
AntiRaynaud's	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatalgic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic	1	Duke, 1992 *