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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
DNA-Protective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Estrogenic 2 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Fungicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 2 Martindale's 29th
Hepatomagenic 1 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.
Hepatoprotective 3 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 210.
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hyperglycemic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypoglycemic 1 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypotensive 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.