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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
RUTIN 87 Leaf 10500.0 -0.35 Jim Duke's personal files.
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 2.0 20.0 -0.28 *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 40.0 351.0 -0.15 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SODIUM 1 Leaf 63.0 -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.
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SUCROSE 14 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TANNIN 35 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.2 1.8 -0.45 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TORMENTIC-ACID 1 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf 13.7 955.6 -0.39 *
VOMIFOLIOL-9-O-BETA-D-APIOFURANOSYL-(1,6)-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Leaf 5.2 Jim Duke's personal files.
WATER 0 Fruit 865000.0 886000.0 0.50 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ZINC 77 Leaf 28.0 -0.35 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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterotonic 1 *
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Vasodilator 9 *
Vasopressor 3 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 1 *
Vitamin-A-Activity 1 *
Vulnerary 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 4 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.