Plant Momordica charantia (Cucurbitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bitter Melon; Sorosi

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatotic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antihepatotoxic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiimplantation	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiimpotence	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinfertility	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	15	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).