Plant Melia azedarach (Meliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Chinaberry

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
SOLANNIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	22800.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-4-EN-3-ONE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
T-CADINOL	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
T-MUUROLOL	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	180000.0	260000.0	1.04	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-P-2-MENTHEN-1-OL	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIACONTANOL	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANNILALDEHYDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Pei-Gen, X., and Nai-Gong, W. Can ethnopharmacology contribute to the development of anti-fertility drugs? Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 32: 167-177, 1991.
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acaricide	2	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Adjuvant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	11	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	5	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic	3	Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic	8	Martindale's 28th
Analgesic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *