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Plant Pterocarpus santalinus (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Red Saunders
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
LUPENONE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL 21 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PTEROCARPDIOLONE 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PTEROCARPIN 0 Wood not available 2500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PTEROCARPOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PTEROCARPTRIOL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PTEROSTILBENE 19 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTAL 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTALIN 0 Wood not available 160000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTALIN-A 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTALIN-B 0 Wood not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant 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
Bronchodilator 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive 4 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 2 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Carcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
FPTase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *