Plant Pinellia ternata (Araceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Ban-Xia; Pan-Hsia

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
3,4-DIHYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4-DIHYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Tuber	4180.0	10000.0	1.80	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Tuber	2.0	4.0	-1.11	Duke, 1992 *
D-GLUCOSE	1	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-GLUCURONIC-ACID	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-6-OCTADECENOIC-ACID	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Tuber	30.0	130.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOMOGENTISIC-ACID	2	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOMOGENTISIC-ACID-GLUCOSIDE	0	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Tuber	70.0	95.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
ISOOLEIC-ACID	0	Tuber	not available	not available	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
AntiMS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephrolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinesidioblastosic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antineuropathic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineurotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antinociceptive	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antinyctalopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity	2	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiophidic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoporotic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiototic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antioxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontitic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperistaltic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiplaque	2	Martindale's 29th
AntiPMS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).