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Common Names
Caper Spurge; Mole Plant
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16-HYDROXYINGENOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 3,4-DIOXYPHENYLALANINE | 0 | Latex Exudate | not available | 5000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 6,20-EPOXYLATHYROL-5,10-DIACETATE-3-PHENYLACETATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-HYDROXYLATHYROL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETULIN | 13 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAOUTCHOUC | 0 | Latex Exudate | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DAPHNETIN | 5 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EUPHORBETIN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EUPHORBIASTEROID | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Seed | 400000.0 | 475000.0 | 1.10 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FERULIC-ACID | 61 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HENTRIACONTANE | 0 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| INGENOL-3-HEXADECANIC-ACID-ESTER | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| KAEMPFEROL | 75 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| KAEMPFEROL-3-GLUCURONIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| L-DOPA | 25 | Latex Exudate | not available | 17000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LATHYROLS | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed | 340000.0 | 365500.0 | 2.03 | Duke, 1992 * |
| P-COUMARIC-ACID | 25 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Estrogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| FLavor | 1 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 4 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hallucinogen | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Hemostat | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Hepatomagenic | 1 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotropic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Herbicide | 1 | Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195. |
| HIV-RT-Inhibitor | 2 | Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991. |
| Hydrocholerectic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hypertensive | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Hypocholesterolemic | 2 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| Hypoglycemic | 2 | Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989. |
| Hypolipemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypolipidemic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypotensive | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |