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

Common Names

Emblic; Myrobalan

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
ETHYL-GALLATE	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
FAT	0	Fruit	1000.0	31000.0	-0.40	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT	0	Seed	not available	160000.0	-0.56	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FIBER	15	Fruit	19000.0	180000.0	0.36	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Fruit	not available	50000.0	1.43	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Pericarp	not available	50000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	1	Fruit	not available	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	1	Tissue Culture	3700.0	5200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLO-TANNIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GIBBERELLIN-A-1	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-3	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-4	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-7	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-9	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOGALLIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOGALLIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	1320.0	6535.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	198.0	980.0	-1.02	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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acarifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adjuvant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Adrenocorticotrophic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	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.
Allergenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	2	Duke, 1992 *