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Plant Morus alba (Moraceae)

Common Names
Sang-Pai-Pi; White Mulberry
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
OXYRESVERATROL 1 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CRESOL 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN 24 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-RUTINOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL 26 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 320.0 3200.0 0.00 Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 2400.0 4500.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS(P2O3) 0 Leaf 6500.0 14000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTATE-PHOSPHORUS 0 Leaf 1183.0 2548.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PICEATANNOL 8 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 1520.0 10133.0 -0.69 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Root Bark 4180.0 5270.0 -0.88 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM(K2O) 0 Leaf 20000.0 39200.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID 6 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 15000.0 120000.0 0.14 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 140000.0 288000.0 0.76 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
Epidermal-Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Essential 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 3 Martindale's 28th
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
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).
FLavor 13 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fumigant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Fungicide 18 Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective 3 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hematopoietic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic 2 Martindale's 28th
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *