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
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTOLEIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTACOSANOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOIC-ACID	5	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYBENZYLMETHYLETHER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTA-7,25-DIENE-3BETA-OL	0	Seed	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
Antirhinitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiseptic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antiserotonin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antispasmodic	8	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antistaphylococcic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisunburn	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X	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
AntiTGF-beta	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithiamin	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antithrombogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithyroid	2	Jim Duke's personal files.