Plant Colocasia esculenta (Araceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Taro

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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
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Root	not available	430.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	48000.0	640000.0	0.22	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	200000.0	885000.0	0.71	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENOIDS	0	Leaf	5.0	7.3	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENOIDS	0	Root	0.1	0.2	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Leaf	not available	1.5	-0.72	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Root	1.6	8.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Leaf	640.0	4465.0	1.31	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Root	320.0	1090.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	6000.0	107000.0	1.01	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	1000.0	16000.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	12000.0	150000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Root	6100.0	37000.0	-1.14	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Root	35200.0	94100.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Root	1740.0	5925.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Root	740.0	2520.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
HEMICELLULOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Leaf	1140.0	7950.0	1.29	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Root	340.0	1160.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
HOMOGENTISIC-ACID	2	Rhizome	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
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	12	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	7	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	4	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	2	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
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).