Plant Hibiscus sabdariffa (Malvaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Roselle; Indian Sorrel; Jamaica Sorrel; Kharkadi; Red Sorrel; Sorrel; Malventee (Ger.); Rosella (Ger.); Acedera de Guinea (Sp.); Rosa de Jamaica (Sp.); Sereni (Sp.)

How this plant is used

Food

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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
OCTANAL	0	Calyx	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
OXALIC-ACID	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PECTIN	24	Calyx	not available	31900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Fruit	not available	10200.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PELARGONIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PENTOSANS	0	Seed	not available	158000.0	1.66	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Flower	110.0	1000.0	-1.14	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	480.0	6458.0	0.27	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	not available	6000.0	0.17	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Calyx	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Flower	1034.0	9400.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDINS	34	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PROTEIN	0	Flower	6600.0	60000.0	-0.96	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Flower	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
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytotoxic	4	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 359.
Decongestant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Degranulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Delta-9-Desaturase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Demulcent	3	Duke, 1992 *
Dentifrice	2	Martindale's 29th
Deodorant	2	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diagnostic	1	Martindale's 28th
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th
Diuretic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Edemagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Elastase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Duke, 1992 *