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
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