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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Pachira aquatica (Bombacaceae)

Common Names
Provision Tree
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed *
CYCLOPROPENOIDS 0 Seed 153700.0 *
FAT 0 Seed 580000.0 1.66 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 29000.0 63800.0 -0.37 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 43500.0 249400.0 1.07 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 266800.0 324800.0 6.00 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 0.0 17400.0 -0.19 *
STERCULIC-ACID 4 Seed *
TANNIN 35 Bark 27000.0 -1.00 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 *
Allergenic 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Androgenic 1 *
Anemiagenic 1 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 1 *
Antiacne 1 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antialopecic 3 *
Antianaphylactic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 4 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 *
Antiarthritic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antibacterial 2 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer 1 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *