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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOMORDICOSIDE-E | 0 | Seed | not available | 36.5 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-E-1 | 0 | Fruit | not available | 756.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-EX | 0 | Fruit | not available | 12.6 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-F' | 0 | Fruit | not available | 6.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-F-1 | 0 | Fruit | not available | 434.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-F-2 | 0 | Fruit | not available | 40.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-G | 0 | Fruit | not available | 123.6 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-H | 0 | Fruit | not available | 74.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-I | 0 | Fruit | not available | 81.8 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-J | 0 | Fruit | not available | 8.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-K | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-K | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-L | 0 | Fruit | not available | 36.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDICOSIDE-L | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| MOMORDIN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDIN-2 | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDIN-A | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOMORDIN-B | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MULTIFLORENOL | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MUTACHROME | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PKC-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prebiotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Previtamin-A | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Probiotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Probiotigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prooxidant | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Propecic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Protisticide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Renotoxic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Retinoprotectant Optometry | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |