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
METHIONINE	15	Fruit	20.0	355.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
MYO-INOSITOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	1520.0	-0.20	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	2.0	12.0	-0.65	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NITROGEN	0	Fruit	1100.0	5445.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	45440.0	-0.61	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	4785.0	-0.60	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Fruit	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.
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	133.0	658.0	-0.93	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	200.0	1390.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTIDINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTIDINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTIDINE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTINE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLEMBLIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	63000.0	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
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	5	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 359.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent	2	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Martindale's 29th
Emollient	1	Martindale's 29th