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Common Names
Calabar Bean
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| 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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antimenorrhagic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| AntiMS | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Antimutagenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antinesidioblastosic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antinociceptive | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiophidic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363. |
| Antioxidant | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprogestational | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antiprostaglandin | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiprostatitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipyretic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Antitumor (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. |
| Antitumor (Cervix) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiviral | 2 | Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991. |
| Apoptotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Artemicide | 2 | Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990. |
| Cancer-Preventive | 4 | Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp. |
| Candidicide | 1 | Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155. |