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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Petiveria alliacea (Phytolaccaceae)

Common Names
Anamu; Guinea Hen Leaf; Mucura
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PINITOL 5 Plant Germosen-Robineau, L. (Ed.) 1997. Farmacopea Vegetal Caribena. Endacaribe, Tramil. Ediciones Emile Desormeaux, Martinique F.W.I. 360 pp.
POLYPHENOLS 30 Leaf Tramil
POTASSIUM-NITRATE 0 Plant Germosen-Robineau, L. (Ed.) 1997. Farmacopea Vegetal Caribena. Endacaribe, Tramil. Ediciones Emile Desormeaux, Martinique F.W.I. 360 pp.
SENFOL 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Leaf Germosen-Robineau, L. (Ed.) 1997. Farmacopea Vegetal Caribena. Endacaribe, Tramil. Ediciones Emile Desormeaux, Martinique F.W.I. 360 pp.
TANNINS 0 Leaf Tramil
TRITHIOLANIACINE 2 Root Tramil
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *
Anticancer (Kidney) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticariogenic 1 *
Antidandruff 1 A.L.L. Hunting. Encyclopedia of Shampoo Ingredients. Micelle Press, Cranford NJ. 467 pp.
Antidiabetic 1 *
Antidiarrheic 1 *
Antidiuretic 1 *
Antidysenteric 1 *
Antiedemic 2 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiesherichic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiestrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifeedant 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antihepatotoxic 2 *
AntiHIV 1 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.