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Plant Phyllanthus niruri (Euphorbiaceae)

Common Names
Seed On The Leaf
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
PHYLTETRALIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-HETEROSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETOL 1 Plant not available not available not available Tramil
QUERCITRIN 44 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN 87 Plant not available not available not available Tramil
SAPONINS 5 Plant not available not available not available Tramil
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antihematuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhagic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihemorrhoidal 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic 2 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperglycemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiinflammatory 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipoperoxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 3 Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimelanomic 2 Duke, 1992 *