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Plant Morinda citrifolia (Rubiaceae)

Common Names
Indian Mulberry; Noni
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Fruit not available 0.0 -0.36 Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDIN 4 Tissue Culture not available 600.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDIN-3-O-BETA-PRIMEVEROSIDE 0 Tissue Culture not available 749.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDIN-3-PRIMEVEROSIDE 0 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUCIDIN-OMEGA-ETHYL-ETHER 0 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-DECANOATE 0 Fruit not available 0.3 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-ELAIDATE 0 Fruit not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-OCTANOATE 0 Fruit not available 0.4 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-OLEATE 0 Fruit not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PALMITATE 0 Fruit not available 0.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
MONO-ETHOXY-RUBIADIN 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MONO-METHOXY-RUBIADIN 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MONOTROPEIN 2 Leaf not available 1580.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MORINDADIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MORINDIN 0 Root not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MORINDIN 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MORINDONE 1 Heart Wood not available 50.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MORINDONE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MORINDONE 1 Tissue Culture not available 145.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
MORINDONE-6BETA-PRIMEVEROSIDE 0 Tissue Culture not available 709.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
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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
Expectorant 3 Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatulent 1 Duke, 1992 *
FLavor 11 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 8 Martindale's 29th
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Genotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
GST-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 8 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide 4 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Herbicide-Safener 1 Chau (1985) in Purseglove et al. Acta Botanica Sinica, 2.