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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Maranta arundinacea (Marantaceae)

Common Names
Arrowroot; Bermuda Arrowroot
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
STARCH 5 Rhizome 250000.0 695000.0 1.66 *
SUGARS 0 Root 21000.0 63000.0 -0.40 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 Leaf *
THIAMIN 31 Root 0.8 4.0 -0.24 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Leaf *
WATER 0 Root 572000.0 674000.0 -0.62 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Bacteristat 1 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 1 *
Beta-Blocker 1 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 1 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive 10 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 1 *
Capillariprotective 1 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardioprotective 5 *
Cardiovascular 1 *
Catabolic 1 *
Cathartic 1 *
Chemopreventive 3 *
Cholagogue 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.