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Plant Eriobotrya japonica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Loquat
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
L-ARGININE 1 Stem not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
LEUCOPELARGONIDIN-3-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNO-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRENOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEVULOSE 1 Fruit not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LOQUATIFOLIN-A 0 Leaf not available 800.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
LOQUATOSIDE 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf not available 2480.0 -0.64 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
MALIC-ACID 15 Leaf not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
MANGANESE 14 Leaf not available 224.0 -0.09 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
MASLINIC-ACID 6 Leaf 12.0 90.0 -0.51 Duke, 1992 *
MASLINIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Leaf not available 100.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
MERCURY 1 Leaf not available 0.0 -0.61 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
METHYL-GUANIDINE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
METHYL-GUANIDINE 0 Stem not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
N-ALPHA-ACETYL-L-ARGININE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
N-ALPHA-ACETYL-L-ARGININE 0 Stem not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
NEO-BETA-CAROTENE 0 Fruit 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.
NEO-BETA-CAROTENE-B 0 Fruit 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.
NEO-BETA-CAROTENE-U 0 Fruit 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.
NEROLIDOL-3-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOPYRANOSYL(1,4)-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOPYRANOSYL(1,2)-[ALPHA-L-(4-TRANS-FERULOYL)-RHAMNOPYRANOSYL(1,6) 0 Leaf not available 20.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 19 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pigment 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Potassium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Previtamin-A 1 Duke, 1992 *
Proliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant 4 Duke, 1992 *
Propecic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *