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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Holarrhena pubescens (Apocynaceae)

Common Names
Tellicherry Bark; Zhi Xie Mu; Conessi; Kurchi
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
HOLONAMINE 0 Stem Bark *
ISOCONESSIMINE 0 Bark *
ISOCONESSIMINE 0 Stem Bark 750.0 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf *
KURCHALINE 0 Leaf *
KURCHAMIDE 0 Bark 1.7 *
KURCHAMINE 0 Bark *
KURCHAMINE 0 Stem Bark *
KURCHENINE 0 Seed *
KURCHESSINE 0 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
KURCHESSINE 0 Stem Bark *
KURCHICINE 1 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
KURCHICINE 1 Seed *
KURCHILIDINE 0 Bark 1.2 *
KURCHIMINE 0 Stem Bark *
KURCHINE 1 Bark *
KURCHINICIN 0 Bark 1.7 Siddiqui, B. S., Usmani, S. B., Begum, S., Siddiqui, S. 1994. Steroidal Constituents of Holarrhena pubescens. J. Natural Products, 57(1): 27-31.
KURCHINIDINE 0 Stem Bark 0.7 Siddiqui, B. S., Usmani, S. B., Begum, S., Siddiqui, S. 1993. Steroidal Alkaloids and an Androstane Derivative from the Bark of Holarrhena pubescens. Phytochemistry, 33(4): 925-928.
KURCHININ 0 Stem Bark 4.2 Siddiqui, B. S., Usmani, S. B., Begum, S., Siddiqui, S. 1993. Steroidal Alkaloids and an Androstane Derivative from the Bark of Holarrhena pubescens. Phytochemistry, 33(4): 925-928.
KURCHININE 0 Bark 2.2 Siddiqui, B. S., Usmani, S. B., Begum, S., Siddiqui, S. 1994. Steroidal Constituents of Holarrhena pubescens. J. Natural Products, 57(1): 27-31.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihyperlipidemic 1 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiimplantation 1 *
Antiinflammatory 9 *
Antileishmanic 2 *
Antileukemic 5 *
Antileukotriene 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antileukotriene-D4 2 *
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 *
Antilithic 1 *
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 2 *
Antimalarial 3 Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimelanomic 1 *
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 2 *
AntiMS 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 5 *