Plant Dipteryx odorata (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Tonka Bean; Dutch Tonka Bean

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
STIGMASTEROL	12	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TRANS-O-COUMARIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Seed	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VOUACAPENIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
WATER	0	Seed	69000.0	102000.0	-0.48	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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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
Tineacide	1	Martindale's 29th
TOPO-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.