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
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	7	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	1	Martindale's 28th
Atherogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist	6	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *