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Plant Punica granatum (Punicaceae)

Common Names
Pomegranate; Grenadier (Fr.); Granatapfelbaum (Ger.); Granatapfelstrauch (Ger.); Zakuro (Jap.); Romanzeiro (Port.); Granado (Sp.); Mangrano (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Food
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
FLUORIDE 3 Plant 0.2 0.3 -0.83 Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN 2 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN 2 Stem Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDOOLEANAN-3-ONE 0 Stem Bark not available not available not available Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID 7 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLAGYLDILACTON 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Pericarp 900.0 40000.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
GALLOCATECHIN-(4,8)-CATECHIN 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
GALLOCATECHIN-(4,8)-GALLOCATECHIN 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
GALLOTANNINS 0 Pericarp 200000.0 280000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL 14 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit 50000.0 110000.0 0.27 Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLYCERIN 1 Twig not available 300.0 not available Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
GRANATIN-A 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GRANATIN-A 2 Pericarp 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
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprotozoal 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriac 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Antipurpuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 17 Planta Medica, 56(6): 695, 1990.
AntiRaynaud's 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic 2 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.
Antireserpine 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Antiretinopathic 1 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
Antiretinotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiReye's 1 Martindale's 29th