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Plant Prosopis juliflora (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Mesquite
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
ISORHAMNETIN-3-GLUCOSIDE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-ARABINOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf not available 2200.0 -0.51 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit not available 139000.0 0.40 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf not available 190000.0 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 300000.0 652000.0 3.72 Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STARCH 5 Fruit not available 163600.0 -0.21 Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR 0 Fruit not available 330000.0 0.96 Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR 0 Seed not available 330000.0 3.13 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Bark 6000.0 84000.0 -0.50 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Root not available 67000.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Wood not available 9000.0 -0.87 Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS 0 Fruit not available 58100.0 -0.26 Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTAMINE 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperkinetic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihypertensive 4 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiinflammatory 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinsomniac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiketotic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antileishmanic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 225.
Antileukotriene 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimelanomic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antimenopausal 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic 3 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Antimutilation 1 Martindale's 28th
Antimyocarditic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinephritic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antinesidioblastosic 1 Martindale's 29th