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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Paullinia cupana (Sapindaceae)

Common Names
Guarana
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
THEOPHYLLINE 36 Seed 0.0 2500.0 0.53 *
TIMBONINE 0 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
XANTHINE 1 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticariogenic 2 *
Anticellulitic 2 *
Antichoreic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic 1 *
Anticoagulant 1 *
Anticystinuric 1 *
Antidementia 1 *
Antidermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antidiabetic 1 *
Antidiarrheic 1 *
Antidote 1 Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Iodine) 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidysenteric 1 *
Antidyskinetic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiemetic 1 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antiemphysemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antifeedant 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antiflu 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 198.
Antigonadotropic 1 *
Antigranulocytopenic 1 *