Plant Physostigma venenosum (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Calabar Bean

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
ALKALOIDS	0	Seed	3000.0	5000.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALABACINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALABARINE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALABAROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALABATINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESERAMINE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESERANINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESERIDINE	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESERINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENESERINE	0	Seed	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPHYSOSTIGMINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-8-NORPHYSOSTIGMINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSOSTERINE	0	Seed	not available	1500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSOVENINE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	200000.0	230000.0	-0.03	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
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Allergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiacne	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antialopecic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antibacterial	1	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinesterase	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.