Plant Picrorhiza kurrooa (Scrophulariaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Picrorhiza

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Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PICROSIDE-III	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
TRIPALMITIN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Rhizome	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VERONICOSIDE	0	Root	not available	47.0	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
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiallergenic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiarrhythmic	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 407.
Antiarthritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	2	Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifatigue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigibberellin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic	3	Duke, 1992 *