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Plant Harpagophytum procumbens (Pedaliaceae)

Common Names
Devil's Claw; Grapple Plant
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
AntiBPH 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer 4 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon) 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticariogenic 2 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 6 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.