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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Heliotropium indicus (Boraginaceae)

Common Names
Indian Heliotrope
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(-)-TRACHELANTHINIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ACETYL-INDICINE 0 Plant *
ALKALOID 0 Plant *
ALKALOIDS 0 Plant 90.0 800.0 -0.42 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Plant *
CHALINOSTEROL 0 Plant *
HELIOTRINE 9 Seed *
INDICINE 1 Plant *
INDICINE-N-OXIDE 9 Plant *
INDICININE 0 Plant *
RETRONECINE 0 Plant *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant *
TANNINS 0 Plant *
TRACHELANTHINIC-ACID 0 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antimutagenic 1 *
Antineuromuscular 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antinociceptive 1 *
Antiophidic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant 3 *
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprostaglandin 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 1 *
Antipyretic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antisarcomic 1 Cordell, G.A., Beecher, C.W.W., and Pezzuto, J.M. Can ethnopharmacology contribute to the development of new anticancer drugs? Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117-133, 1991.
Antitumor 2 Collins, D.J., Culvenor, C.C.J., Lamberton, J.A., Loder, J.W. and Price, J.R., Plants for Medicines, CSIRO, East Melbourne, Australia, 1990, 303 pp.
Antitumor (Breast) 2 Cordell, G.A., Beecher, C.W.W., and Pezzuto, J.M. Can ethnopharmacology contribute to the development of new anticancer drugs? Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117-133, 1991.
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 *
Antitumor (Colon) 1 Cordell, G.A., Beecher, C.W.W., and Pezzuto, J.M. Can ethnopharmacology contribute to the development of new anticancer drugs? Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117-133, 1991.
Antitumor (Lung) 2 Cordell, G.A., Beecher, C.W.W., and Pezzuto, J.M. Can ethnopharmacology contribute to the development of new anticancer drugs? Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117-133, 1991.
Antiviral 2 Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Apoptotic 1 *
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.
Cancer-Preventive 2 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.