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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PROCYANIDIN-B-2 1 Fruit Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
PROLINE 0 Fruit *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 7700.0 73000.0 -0.49 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 25000.0 -1.86 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Fruit *
PSEUDOPELLETIERINE 0 Bark *
PSEUDOPELLETIERINE 0 Root Bark *
PSEUDOPELLETIERINE 0 Stem Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-A 0 Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-A 0 Root Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-A 0 Stem Bark 30.0 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
PUNICACORTEIN-B 0 Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-B 0 Root Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-B 0 Stem Bark 30.0 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
PUNICACORTEIN-C 1 Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-C 1 Root Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-C 1 Stem Bark 950.0 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
PUNICACORTEIN-D 0 Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-D 0 Root Bark *
PUNICACORTEIN-D 0 Stem Bark 60.0 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Detoxicant 2 *
Diaphoretic 1 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 3 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 17 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 2 *
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Elastase-Inhibitor 2 *
Emetic 6 Merck 11th Edition
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Essential 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 10 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Euphoriant 1 *
Expectorant 1 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *