Common Names
Beach Bells
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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AFZELIN | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
FRIEDELIN | 2 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
GLUTINOL | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
KAEMPFEROL | 75 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
PATULETIN | 2 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
QUERCETIN | 176 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
QUERCETIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE-7-O-RHAMNOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
TARAXEROL | 2 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Cytotoxic | 2 | Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990. |
Deiodinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
Diaphoretic? | 2 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90. |
Differentiator | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Diuretic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Estrogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Fungicide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Hemostat | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
Hepatomagenic | 1 | 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 | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
HIV-RT-Inhibitor | 2 | Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991. |
Hypocholesterolemic | 2 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
Hypoglycemic | 1 | 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. |
Hypotensive | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
ICAM-1-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
iNOS-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Inotropic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Insulinogenic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |