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.
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Chemical Name Sort descending	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 Sort descending	Chemical Count	Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4 (View Chemicals list for 5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1 (View Chemicals list for Absorbent)	Martindale's 29th
Allergenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Allergenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Androgenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Anemiagenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Anemiagenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Angiogenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1 (View Chemicals list for Anorexic)	Martindale's 28th
Antiacne	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiacne)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiadenomic)	Merck 11th Edition
Antialopecic	3 (View Chemicals list for Antialopecic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antianaphylactic)	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4 (View Chemicals list for Antiandrogenic)	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarteriosclerotic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiarteriosclerotic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiarthritic)	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antibacterial	1 (View Chemicals list for Antibacterial)	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer (Breast)	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer (Breast))	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 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer (Cervix))	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer (Lung))	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinesterase	2 (View Chemicals list for Anticholinesterase)	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.