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Plant Coix lacryma-jobi (Poaceae)

Common Names
Adlay; Adlay Millet; Job'S-Tears; Yi-Yi-Ren
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu
Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
MAGNESIUM 65 Seed not available 1490.0 -0.58 Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
MANGANESE 14 Seed not available 26.0 -0.34 Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
MAYTENOLIDE 2 Pericarp not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MONOGALACTOSYL-DIGLYCERIDES 0 Seed not available not available not available Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu
Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
NIACIN 39 Seed 13.0 48.0 0.15 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root 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.
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE 2 Seed not available not available not available Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu
Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
PHOSPHATIDYL-ETHANOLAMINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu
Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
PHOSPHATIDYL-INOSITOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu
Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
PHOSPHATIDYL-SERINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu
Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
PHOSPHOLIPIDS 0 Seed not available 18300.0 0.62 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 500.0 5000.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
POTASSIUM 14 Seed not available 2360.0 -0.90 Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
PROTEIN 0 Plant not available 85000.0 -0.72 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Seed 81000.0 262000.0 0.25 Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed 0.6 2.1 -0.55 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SAPONIN 0 Seed 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.
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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
Antifeedant 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.