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

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Picrorhiza

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

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
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 *

Download these results as:

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
Hyperglycemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Immunostimulant	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insectiphile	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	2	=ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Nephrotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Prostaglandigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Purgative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Secretogogue	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.