Plant Phyllanthus amarus (Euphorbiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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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
ISOBUBBIALINE	0	Leaf	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Shoot	not available	122.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
NORSECURININE	0	Leaf	not available	180.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHIN	2	Branches	not available	670.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHIN	2	Fruit	170.0	5100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHIN	2	Leaf	not available	7090.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHIN	2	Root	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHIN	2	Shoot	not available	262.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHIN	2	Stem	not available	580.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHINE	0	Leaf	not available	260.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHUSIIN D	0	Shoot	not available	162.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
REPANDUSINIC ACID B	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Shoot	not available	1378.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
SECURININE	7	Leaf	not available	210.0	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
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	2	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	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hypotensive	2	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Immunomodulator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	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.
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulin-Sparing	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Juvabional	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat	2	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Mutagenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *