Plant Hemidesmus indicus (Asclepiadaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN-ACETATE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DESININE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Root	1600.0	2250.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
HEMIDESMOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEMIDESTEROL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXATRIACONTANE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPEROSIDE	30	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL-ACETATE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL-OCTACOSANOATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXY-SALICYLIC-ALDEHYDE	0	Root	1280.0	1800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS	0	Leaf	not available	25000.0	-0.89	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
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Insectifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectiphile	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Mosquitocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mutagenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.