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Common Names
Bitter Melon; Sorosi
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPRIC-ACID | 3 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CARBOHYDRATES | 0 | Fruit | 47000.0 | 763000.0 | -0.11 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CARBOHYDRATES | 0 | Leaf | 70000.0 | 618000.0 | 0.05 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CHARANTIN | 4 | Fruit | 350.0 | 1500.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHARANTIN | 4 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHARINE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHOLESTEROL | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | =ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp |
| CITRULLINE | 5 | Fruit | not available | 41.2 | -0.64 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| COPPER | 12 | Fruit | not available | 30.0 | 1.34 | =ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp |
| CRYPTOXANTHIN | 2 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CRYPTOXANTHIN | 2 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CUCURBITACIN-B | 8 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CUCURBITACIN-K | 2 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CYCLOARTENOL | 7 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| D-GALACTURONIC-ACID | 0 | Fruit | not available | 600.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| DELTA-CAROTENE | 1 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| DIOSGENIN | 7 | Fruit | not available | 1.7 | -1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| DIOSGENIN | 7 | Tissue Culture | not available | 13.7 | -0.71 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ELASTEROL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| ETHYLENE | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Convulsant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cosmetic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| COX-1-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COX-2-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cytotoxic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Deiodinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Demulcent | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Dermatitigenic | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Detoxicant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Diuretic | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Essential | 5 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Expectorant | 1 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| Fatal | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| FLavor | 6 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastroprotective | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |