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
Piscicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	2	Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	3	Yannai, S., Day, A. J., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1998. Characterization of Flavonoids as Monofunctional or Bifunctional Inducers of Quinone Reductase in Murine Hepatoma Cell Lines. Food Chem Toxicol, 36(8): 623-630.
Roborant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Sedative	4	Duke, 1992 *