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
Antiphotophobic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antipityriasic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplaque	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplasmodial	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipoliomyelitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant	4	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiproliferative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antipsoriac	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipyretic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.