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.
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
PHYLLEMBLIC-ACID	0	Pericarp	not available	63000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLEMBLIN	2	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.
PHYLLEMBLINIC-ACID	0	Fruit	40000.0	90000.0	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
POLYSACCHARIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1710.0	13960.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Fruit	652.0	3225.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	700.0	44000.0	-0.88	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Tissue Culture	not available	11850.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.4	2.5	-0.54	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RUTIN	87	Fruit	not available	4600.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	21000.0	0.30	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Fruit	2.4	12.0	2.59	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Fruit	183.0	905.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
SILICA	0	Fruit	235.0	1163.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Fruit	42.0	1384.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Fruit	1800.0	8910.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	3440.0	-0.49	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Fruit	2600.0	12970.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Fruit	166.0	820.0	-0.41	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
Antipoliomyelitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprotozoal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antipsoriac	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	9	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	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.
Antiretardation	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.