Plant Gymnema sylvestre (Asclepiadaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Gymnema; Miracle Fruit

How this plant is used

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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
(-)-VIBURNITOL	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.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	152.0	800.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	11400.0	60000.0	-1.04	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	6.0	30.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Willaman, J. J., Li, H. L. 1970. Alkaloid-Bearing Plants and their Contained Alkaloids. 1957-1968. Lloydia 33S: 1-286.
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	169.0	890.0	-1.20	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Willaman, J. J., Li, H. L. 1970. Alkaloid-Bearing Plants and their Contained Alkaloids. 1957-1968. Lloydia 33S: 1-286.
CHROMIUM	24	Leaf	0.9	4.5	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CONDURITOL-A	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	3990.0	21000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Leaf	not available	80000.0	-1.24	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Leaf	not available	320000.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
GURMARIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GYMNEMAGENIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-I	0	Leaf	not available	60.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-II	0	Leaf	25.0	27.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-III	0	Leaf	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-IV	0	Leaf	12.0	17.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GYMNEMASAPONIN-V	0	Leaf	133.0	160.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antitriglyceride	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitumor	2	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (brain)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	1	Rafatullah, S., Tariq, M., Al-Yahya, M.A., Mossa, J.S., and Ageel, A.M. 1989. Evaluation of Turmeric (Curcuma longa) for Gastric and Duodenal Antiulcer Activity in Rats. J. of Ethnopharmacology, 29: 25-34, 1990.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	5	Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).