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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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 * |