Plant Physalis peruviana (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cape Gooseberry; Ground Cherry

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
2,3-DEHYDROWITHANOLIDE-E	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-DEOXYPHYSALOLACTONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4BETA-HYDROXYWITHANOLIDE-E	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4BETA-HYDROXYWITHANOLIDE-F	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	63.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	365.0	2865.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	8000.0	47000.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	0.1	84.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-D-GLUCOSIDE	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	80.0	585.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	110000.0	929000.0	0.78	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Fruit	not available	22000.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	2.0	11.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
ELAIDIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	2000.0	12000.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	63000.0	-1.07	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	32000.0	232000.0	0.85	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
Antigastritic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihangover	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	1	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatotoxic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	6	Duke, 1992 *