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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SUGARS 0 Fruit 35000.0 45000.0 -0.70 *
TARAXEROL 2 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.2 12.0 0.85 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 1.3 8.0 -0.06 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THREONINE 4 Seed 17.8 -1.82 Jim Duke's personal files.
TITANIUM 0 Fruit 100.0 1.51 =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
TREHALOSE 0 Seed 3960.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRYPSIN-INHIBITOR-MCI-3 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
TYROSINE 8 Seed 517.0 -1.67 Jim Duke's personal files.
UREASE 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
V-INSULIN 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
VERBASCOSIDE 20 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
VICINE 0 Seed 4000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
WATER 0 Fruit 795000.0 934000.0 0.71 *
WATER 0 Leaf 801000.0 846000.0 0.19 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ZEATIN 2 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ZEATIN-RIBOSIDE 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Fruit *
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
ZEINOXANTHIN 0 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 *
Anticanker 2 *
Anticarcinomic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 4 *
Anticerebrotic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 *
AntiCFS 2 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholesteremic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antichoreic 2 Martindale's 29th
Anticirrhotic? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlimacteric 3 *
Anticoagulant 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.