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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Momordica charantia (Cucurbitaceae)

Common Names
Bitter Melon; Sorosi
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(-)-MENTHOL 4 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
10-ALPHA-CUCURBITA-5-24-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
24-METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
3-O-(6'-O-PALMITOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL)-STIGMASTA-5-25(27)-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
3-O-(6'-O-STEAROYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL)-STIGMASTA-5-25(27)-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
5-ALPHA-STIGMASTA-7,22,25-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5-ALPHA-STIGMASTA-7,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE 15 Fruit *
ALANINE 3 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
ALANINE 3 Seed 157.7 -2.13 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALKALOIDS 0 Fruit 380.0 -0.79 *
ALPHA-ALPHA-TREHALOSE 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-ELAEOSTEARIC-ACID 0 Cotyledon 658900.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-ELAEOSTEARIC-ACID 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-ELEOSTEARIC-ACID 3 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-GLUCOSE 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-MOMORCHARIN 5 Seed 1000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL 2 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
ARGININE 14 Seed 323.0 -1.03 Jim Duke's personal files.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 570.0 36447.0 1.98 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 *
Antiretinopathic 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
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic 5 *
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antisecretory 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiseptic 4 Martindale's 28th
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 1 Int. J. Immunopharmacology. Vol 10: 735, 1988.
Antisickling 3 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antispasmodic 5 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaph 1 *
Antistaphylococcic 1 *
Antistreptococcic 1 *
Antistress 7 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.