Plant Commelina communis (Commelinaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Common dayflower

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

CSV

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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
AWOBANOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
COMMELININ	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELPHIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
DELPHINIDIN-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FLAVOCOMMELIN	0	Flower	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.
GENKWANIN-4'-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE-6-C-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Flower	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.
MALONYLAWOBANIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
METALLIONEN	0	Flower	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.
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	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.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Flower	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.

Download these results as:

CSV

XLSX

List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Sort descending	Chemical Count	Reference
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor)	Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelopathic	1 (View Chemicals list for Allelopathic)	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antibacterial	1 (View Chemicals list for Antibacterial)	Pharmazie, 46: 156, 1991.
Anticlastogen	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticlastogen)	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	1 (View Chemicals list for Antifertility)	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antihepatotoxic)	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antileukemic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antileukemic)	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antinitrosaminic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antinitrosaminic)	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antioxidant	1 (View Chemicals list for Antioxidant)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperoxidant	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiperoxidant)	Planta Medica, 57: A54, 1991.
Antiseptic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiseptic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antispasmodic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antispasmodic)	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antitumor	1 (View Chemicals list for Antitumor)	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	2 (View Chemicals list for Cancer-Preventive)	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Chemopreventive	1 (View Chemicals list for Chemopreventive)	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	1 (View Chemicals list for Choleretic)	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1 (View Chemicals list for Cytotoxic)	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Demulcent	1 (View Chemicals list for Demulcent)	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	1 (View Chemicals list for Diaphoretic?)	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Fungicide	1 (View Chemicals list for Fungicide)	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.