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

Common Names

Watermelon

How this plant is used

Food

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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
CAPRIC-ACID	3	Seed	2200.0	4840.0	-0.31	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CAPRYLIC-ACID	5	Seed	400.0	880.0	-0.58	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	3800.0	859000.0	0.41	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	44000.0	48000.0	-1.89	Duke, 1992 *
CINEOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS,CIS-3,6-NONADIEN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CITRULLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLINE	5	Fruit	1627.0	3705.0	1.73	Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CLEROSTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CODISTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	not available	4.0	-0.69	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
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	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-E-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-E-GLYCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-II	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITOCITRIN	1	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
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	8	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor	9	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	11	Tomas-Barberan, F., Iniesta-Sanmartin, E., Tomas-Lorente, F., and Rumbero, A. 1989. Antimicrobial Phenolic Compounds From Three Spanish Helichrysum Species. Phytochemistry. 29(4): 1093-1095. 1990.
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	2	Martindale's 29th