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
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	12	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Elastase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	3	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	5	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	6	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.