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Plant Garcinia cambogia (Clusiaceae)

Common Names

Brindleberry, Malabar Tamarind, Garcinia

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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
(-)-ALPHA-HYDROXYCITRIC-ACID	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Mizusaki, S., Hashimoto, K., Sudo, S., Hasegawa, M. 1998. Obesity Preventive Agents Containing Extracts of Garcinia cambogia and Mulberry Tree. Patent-Japan Kokai Tokyo Koho-10 265,397: 4 pp.
(-)-HYDROXYCITRIC ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-HYDROXYCITRIC ACID	0	Pericarp	160000.0	180000.0	not available	Jayaprakasha, G. K., Sakariah, K. K. 1998. Determination of Orgainc Acids in Garcinia cambogia (Desr.) by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography. J Chromatogra. 806(2): 337-339.
CAMBOGIN	0	Latex Exudate	not available	55000.0	not available	Rama Rao, A. V., Venkatswamy, G., Pendse, A. D. 1980. Camboginol and cambogin. Tetrahedron Lett 21: 1975-1978.
CITIRC ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBOGIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Ye, D. J., Wu, H., Hu, Y., Sheng, Z. Q. 1995. Gambogic acid content in gamboge and its processed product. Zhongguo Zhongyao Zazhi 20(10): 601.
GARBOGIOL	0	Root	not available	1.0	not available	Iinuma, M., Ito, T., Miyake, R., Tosa, H., Tanaka, T., Chelladurai, V. 1998. A xanthone from Garcinia cambogia. Phytochemistry 47(6): 1169-1170.
GARCINOL	8	Bark	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GARCINOL	8	Latex Exudate	not available	370000.0	not available	Rama Rao, A. V., Venkatswamy, G., Pendse, A. D. 1980. Camboginol and cambogin. Tetrahedron Lett 21: 1975-1978.
ISOGARCINOL	0	Bark	not available	8.0	not available	Iinuma, M., Ito, T., Miyake, R., Tosa, H., Tanaka, T., Chelladurai, V. 1998. A xanthone from Garcinia cambogia. Phytochemistry 47(6): 1169-1170.
RHEEDIAXANTHONE-A	0	Bark	not available	500.0	not available	Iinuma, M., Ito, T., Miyake, R., Tosa, H., Tanaka, T., Chelladurai, V. 1998. A xanthone from Garcinia cambogia. Phytochemistry 47(6): 1169-1170.
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lewis, Y. S., Neelakantan, S. 1965. (-)-hydroxycitric acid, the principle acid in the fruits of Garcinia cambogia Desr. Phytochemistry 4: 619-625.
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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