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
Uricosuric	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Vasodilator	8	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	5	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).