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

Common Names
Devil's Claw; Grapple Plant
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
2-METHOXY-BENZYL ALCOHOL 0 Tuber *
3-BETA-ACETYL-OLEANOLIC ACID 0 Root *
4-METHOXY-BENZYL ALCOHOL 0 Tuber *
6'-O-(P-COUMAROYL)-PROCUMBIDE 0 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
6'-O-(P-COUMAROYL)-PROCUMBIDE 0 Root 31.3 *
8-O(P-COUMAROYL)-HARPAGIDE 0 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
8-O(P-COUMAROYL)-HARPAGIDE 0 Root 184.0 *
8-P-COUMAROYL-HARPAGIDE 0 Tuber *
ACETOSIDE 1 Root Abstract (See species file)
ALANINE 3 Root 60.0 -1.67 *
ALUMINUM 5 Root 178.0 939.0 0.19 *
ARGININE 14 Root 840.0 -0.50 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Root *
ASH 0 Root 13490.0 71000.0 0.10 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Root 160.0 -1.27 *
BETA-(3'-4'-DIHYDROXY-PHENYL)-ETHYL-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOPYRANOSYL(1-3)BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Root *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Root *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Tuber *
BIOSIDE 0 Root Abstract (See species file)
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Root *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiradicular 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antirheumatic 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antisarcomic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseptic 7 Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin 1 *
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling 2 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic 9 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaph 1 *
Antistaphylococcic 3 *