An official website of the United States government.

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
  1. Home
  2. Cucurbita foetidissima

Cucurbita foetidissima (Cucurbitaceae)

Common Names
Buffalo Gourd

Select a Results View:

View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
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
PROLINE 0 Seed 8290.0 15390.0 0.80 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 231000.0 1.63 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 253000.0 0.41 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Root 204000.0 0.96 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
PROTEIN 0 Seed 222000.0 351000.0 1.04 *
RAFFINOSE 1 Seed 11000.0 1.08 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
SERINE 1 Seed 12585.0 20180.0 1.84 *
SFA 0 Seed 60600.0 0.02 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
STACHYOSE 1 Seed 9000.0 -0.93 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
STARCH 5 Root 259000.0 550000.0 0.98 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 2430.0 28475.0 0.05 *
SUCROSE 14 Seed 23000.0 -0.37 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
THREONINE 4 Seed 4605.0 26000.0 4.00 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 1840.0 5472.0 0.73 *
TYROSINE 8 Seed 11350.0 13680.0 1.38 *
VALINE 3 Seed 11665.0 48000.0 4.43 *
WATER 0 Fruit 899000.0 0.56 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
WATER 0 Root 653000.0 -0.76 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
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
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 *
Absorbent 1 Martindale's 29th
Acetylcholinergic 1 *
Aggregant 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Allergenic 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Analgesic 1 Martindale's 29th
Anemiagenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 2 *
Antiacid 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacne 1 *
AntiADD 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiAddisonian 1 *
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergic 1 *
Antialopecic 3 *
Antianaphylactic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 3 *