Plant Harpagophytum procumbens (Pedaliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Devil's Claw; Grapple Plant

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	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
N-ALKANES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
N-DOCOSANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-DOTRIACONTANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HENEICOSANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HENTRIACONTANE	3	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEPTACOSANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXACOSANE	2	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE	1	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTACOSANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTACOSANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TETRACOSANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRICOSANE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Root	15.0	79.0	0.83	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID-ACETATE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Root	not available	not available	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
(+)-Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-Chronotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	9	Kohda, H., Tanaka, S., Yamaoka, Y., Yahara, S., Nohara, T., Tanimoto, T., Tanaka, A. 1989. Studies on Lens-Aldose-Reductase Inhibitor in Medicinal Plants.II Active Constituents of Monochasma savatierii FRANCH, et MAXIM. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 37(11):3153-3154
Allelochemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *