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

Common Names
Emblic; Myrobalan
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PHYLLEMBLIC-ACID 0 Pericarp 63000.0 *
PHYLLEMBLIN 2 Fruit 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 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
POLYSACCHARIDE 0 Fruit *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 1710.0 13960.0 -0.35 *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 652.0 3225.0 -0.21 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 700.0 44000.0 -0.88 *
QUERCETIN 176 Tissue Culture 11850.0 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.4 2.5 -0.54 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RUTIN 87 Fruit 4600.0 -0.13 *
RUTIN 87 Leaf 21000.0 0.30 *
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 2.4 12.0 2.59 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 183.0 905.0 -0.97 *
SILICA 0 Fruit 235.0 1163.0 -0.39 *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 42.0 1384.0 -0.05 *
STARCH 5 Fruit 1800.0 8910.0 -0.44 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 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 *
SUCROSE 14 Fruit 2600.0 12970.0 -0.65 *
SULFUR 14 Fruit 166.0 820.0 -0.41 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Apoptotic 8 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide 1 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 3 Martindale's 29th
Atherogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bacteristat 2 Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 1 *
Beta-Blocker 2 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchodilator 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 2 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 3 *
Cancer-Preventive 22 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candida-SAP-Inhibitor 1 *
Candidicide 3 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.