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

Common Names

Picrorhiza

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
2-BETA-GLUCOSYLOXY-CUCURBITACIN-O	0	Root	not available	47.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
23,24-DIHYDROCUCURBITACIN-B	0	Root	not available	24.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
25-ACETOXY-2BETA-GLUCOSYLOXY-3,16,20-TRIHYDROXY-9-METHYL-18-NORLANOST-5,23-DIEN-22-ONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
2BETA-GLUCOSYLOXY-16,20,22-TRIHYDROXY-9-METHYL-19-NORLANOSTA-5,24-DIENE-3,11-DIONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2BETA-GLUCOSYLOXY-3,16,20,25-TETRAHYDROXY-9-METHYL-19-NORLANOSTA-5,23-DIENE-11,22-DIONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-FERULOYLCATALPOL	0	Root	not available	59.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-TRANS-FERULOYLCATALPOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMPHICOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMPHICOSIDE	0	Root	706.0	36000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANDROSIN	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANDROSIN	5	Root	not available	176.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APOCYNIN	8	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
APOCYNIN	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APOCYNINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARVENIN-III	0	Root	not available	35.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATALPOL	3	Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-6-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-B	8	Root	not available	47.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
CUCURBITACIN-Q-2-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	35.0	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
Antitumor-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitussive	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 200.
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	2	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiac	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Cardioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cartilage-Sparing	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cathartic	1	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Chemopreventive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide	2	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	2	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 207.
Hepatotoxic	3	Fitoterapia No.5-1986.