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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Hemidesmus indicus (Asclepiadaceae)

Common Names
Indian Sarsaparilla
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
ALPHA-AMYRIN 10 Root *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Root *
BETA-AMYRIN-ACETATE 4 Root *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Root *
DESININE 0 Plant *
EO 0 Root 1600.0 2250.0 -0.55 *
HEMIDESMOL 0 Root *
HEMIDESTEROL 0 Root *
HEXATRIACONTANE 0 Root *
HYPEROSIDE 30 Flower *
ISOQUERCITIN 0 Flower *
LUPEOL 21 Root *
LUPEOL-ACETATE 2 Root *
LUPEOL-OCTACOSANOATE 0 Root *
P-METHOXY-SALICYLIC-ALDEHYDE 0 Root 1280.0 1800.0 *
RESIN 0 Root *
RUTIN 87 Flower *
SAPONINS 5 Root *
TANNINS 0 Leaf 25000.0 -0.89 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Capillarigenic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 (View) *
Catabolic 1 (View) *
Chemopreventive 1 (View) *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 1 (View) Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cytoprotective 1 (View) *
Cytotoxic 2 (View) *
Diuretic 1 (View) *
Estrogenic 1 (View) *
Estrogenic? 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Febrifuge 1 (View) Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FPTase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Gastroprotective 2 (View) *
Gonadotrophic 1 (View) Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemostat 1 (View) *
Hepatomagenic 1 (View) Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 5 (View) *
Hypocholesterolemic 2 (View) Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hypoglycemic 1 (View) Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.