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Plant Momordica charantia (Cucurbitaceae)

Common Names
Bitter Melon; Sorosi
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
RIBOSOME-INACTIVATING-PROTEIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ROSMARINIC-ACID 57 Shoot not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
RUBIXANTHIN 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUBIXANTHIN 1 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
SERINE 1 Seed not available 39.9 -2.02 Jim Duke's personal files.
SODIUM 1 Fruit 20.0 333.0 -0.15 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SODIUM 1 Leaf 190.0 1234.0 -0.43 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SQUALENE 10 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Cotyledon 121200.0 241800.0 1.73 Jim Duke's personal files.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 29800.0 147800.0 2.64 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMAST-5-ENE-3-BETA-25-DIOL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTA-5,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTA-5,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
STIGMASTA-5-25-DIENE-3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTA-7,22-DIEN-3BETA-OL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTA-7-22-25-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
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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
Antiacetylcholinesterase 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacid 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacne 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodynic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiADD 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadrenalinic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiAGE 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 3 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiamblyopic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.