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
GALACTOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
GALACTOSE	1	Root	not available	3600.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Root	not available	2500.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGIDE	6	Root	not available	546.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGIDE	6	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOGENIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
HARPAGOGENIN	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOQUINONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Abstract (See species file)
HARPAGOQUINONE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOSIDE	6	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOSIDE	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOSIDE	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOSIDE	6	Root	1000.0	30000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOSIDE	6	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOSIDE	6	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGOSIDE	6	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAQUINONE	0	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
Immunomodulator	8	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	8	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	4	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
JNK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	4	Duke, 1992 *
Leptingenic	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
Leucocytogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	9	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.