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
FLUORIDE	3	Fruit	not available	0.2	-1.24	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	12.0	115.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Fruit	730.0	3460.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	23625.0	41830.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	310.0	1810.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N,N,-DIMETHYLPHYSOPERUVINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	3.0	81.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	26710.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	4160.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Fruit	not available	7000.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
PERULACTONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHLOBAPHANE	0	Calyx	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	550.0	4215.0	0.30	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSALACTONE-B	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSALIEN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSALIN-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	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
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 *