Plant Momordica charantia (Cucurbitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bitter Melon; Sorosi

How this plant is used

Food

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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
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PECTIN	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECAN-1-OL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PEROXIDASE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	320.0	8333.0	1.55	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	540.0	33467.0	5.24	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYTOFLUENE	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PHYTOFLUENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYPEPTIDE-P	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	2700.0	45000.0	2.40	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
POTASSIUM	14	Leaf	5100.0	33117.0	0.12	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROLINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	9000.0	181000.0	0.96	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	51000.0	371000.0	1.59	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.4	9.0	0.85	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	4.6	31.0	-0.03	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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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
Antiulcer	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuremic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	8	Merck 11th Edition
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Avicide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bifidogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist	3	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	21	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	2	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.