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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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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
FAT 0 Leaf 4000.0 39000.0 -0.35 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT 0 Seed 10000.0 496000.0 1.21 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Fruit 10000.0 257800.0 1.10 *
FIBER 15 Leaf 5000.0 104000.0 -0.71 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FLAVOCHROME 0 Fruit *
FLUORIDE 3 Fruit 0.2 0.5 -1.00 =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
FLUORINE 0 Fruit 4.8 3.41 =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
GABA 22 Fruit *
GALACTURONIC-ACID 0 Fruit =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
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID 22 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID 22 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
GAMMA-CAROTENE 2 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Seed 212.0 -1.75 Jim Duke's personal files.
GLYCINE 12 Seed 38.2 -1.58 Jim Duke's personal files.
HEXADECAN-1-OL 0 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
HISTIDINE 7 Seed 43.6 -1.62 Jim Duke's personal files.
INULIN 19 Fruit 10000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
INULIN 19 Tissue Culture 19000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Phagocytotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phytoalexin 1 *
Phytohormonal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
PKC-Inhibitor 1 *
Prebiotic 1 *
Previtamin-A 1 *
Probiotic 1 *
Probiotigenic 1 *
Prooxidant 4 *
Propecic 4 *
Protisticide 1 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 2 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Radioprotective 1 *
Renotoxic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Retinoprotectant Optometry 1 *
Ribosome-Inactivator 2 Bonness, M. S., Promising new drugs from plants: poisons that heal, Herbarist, #56, 1990, 59-68
Roborant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue 1 *