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Plant Pterocarpus santalinus (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Red Saunders
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
ACETYL-OLEANOLIC-ACID 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLOLEANOLALDEHYDE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN 13 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CEDROL 3 Wood Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOMERIDIOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DESOXYSANTALIN 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EPILUPEOL 2 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ERYTHRODIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUDES-4(15)-ENE-2,11-DIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HOMOPTEROCARPIN 0 Wood not available 2000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOPTEROCARPIN 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOPTEROCARPOLONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LIQUIRITIGENIN 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUP-20(29)-EN-2ALPHA,3BETA-DIOL 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
ACE-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiallergenic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antianaphylactic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antianoxic 1 Yamahara, J., Matsuda, H., Naitoh, Y., Fujimura, H., and Tamai, Y. 1990. Antianoxic Action and Active Constituents of Atractylodis Lanceae Rhizoma. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2033-2034, 1990.
Antiasthmatic 1 Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.
Antibacterial 3 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic 2 Duke, 1992 *