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 |
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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 | Duke, 1992 * |
FIBER | 15 | Leaf | 5000.0 | 104000.0 | -0.71 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
FLAVOCHROME | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
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 | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
GALACTURONIC-ACID | 0 | 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 |
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID | 22 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID | 22 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
GAMMA-CAROTENE | 2 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
GENTISIC-ACID | 8 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
GLUTAMIC-ACID | 8 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
GLUTAMIC-ACID | 8 | Seed | not available | 212.0 | -1.75 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
GLYCINE | 12 | Seed | not available | 38.2 | -1.58 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
HEXADECAN-1-OL | 0 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
HISTIDINE | 7 | Seed | not available | 43.6 | -1.62 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
INULIN | 19 | Fruit | not available | 10000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
INULIN | 19 | Tissue Culture | not available | 19000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Antifeedant | 5 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
Antifertility | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
Antifibrinolytic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53. |
Antifibromyalgic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antifibrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiflu | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antigallstone | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antigastritic | 4 | Martindale's 29th |
Antigastrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antigibberellin | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Antigingivitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiglaucomic | 2 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Antiglossitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Antigoiter | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Antigonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
Antigonadotropic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antigranular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antihangover | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiheartburn | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antihemolytic | 1 | Int. J. Immunopharmacology. Vol 10: 729, 1988. |