Plant Lawsonia inermis (Lythraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Henna; Mignonette; Jamaica-Mignonette; Mignonette Tree

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
LUTEOLIN	78	Leaf	not available	29.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
LUTEOLIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
LUTEOLIN-3'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	1175.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
MANNITOL	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTANOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	=ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp
N-TRIACONTANYL-TRIDECANATE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTYL-N-TRIDECANOATE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTYL-N-TRIDECANOATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTYL-N-TRIDECANOATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTYL-N-TRIDECANOATE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Oil	346600.0	347000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	19410.0	42360.0	-0.63	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Oil	90700.0	91000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	5080.0	11085.0	-0.47	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PENTOSANS	0	Leaf	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.
PROTEIN	0	Seed	50000.0	55555.0	-1.59	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
QUINONE	0	Leaf	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.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiplasmodial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	5	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiradicular	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiReye's	1	Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatic	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antisickling	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antispasmodic	5	=ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp
Antistaphylococcic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	10	Yu, S.G., Anderson, P.J., and Elson, C.E. 1995. Efficacy of B-Ionone in the Chemoprevention of Rat Mammary Carcinogenesis. J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2144-2147.
Antitumor (brain)	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antitumor (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.