Common Names
Physic Nut; Purging Nut
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
WATER | 0 | Seed | not available | 66000.0 | -0.62 | Duke, 1992 * |
XYLOSE | 3 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
---|---|---|
Antiandrogenic | 4 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
Antiarrhythmic | 1 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
Antiarteriosclerotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiarthritic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
Antibacterial | 2 | Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155. |
Antibradiquinic | 1 | Fitoterapia No.61: 277, 1990. |
Anticancer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticancer (Breast) | 1 | Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103. |
Anticancer (Cervix) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticancer (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticariogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticoronary | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Antidermatitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antidiabetic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antidiarrheic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antidote (Iodine) | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Antidysenteric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antieczemic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
Antiedemic | 5 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Antiestrogenic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |