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Common Names
Calabar Bean
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Select a Results View:
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Irritant | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Lubricant | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Metastatic | 1 | Science News, 146: 421. |
| Myotic | 1 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| Nematicide | 2 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Ovulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Percutaneostimulant | 1 | Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990. |
| Perfumery | 2 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Pesticide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Poultice | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Propecic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Purgative | 1 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| Sedative | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Soap | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Spermicide | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Spinal-Stimulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Suppository | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Ubiquiot | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Ulcerogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |