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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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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
TERCATAIN 0 Leaf Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
TERMINALIN-GALLAYLDILACTONE 0 Pericarp Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
TESTOSTERONE 11 Seed *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.0 4.0 -0.17 *
TRI-O-PUNICYLGLYCEROL 0 Seed Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
TRITERPENOIDS 0 Flower Newman, R. A., Lansky, E. P., with Block, M. L. 2007. Pomegranate - The Most Medicinal Fruit. Basic Health Publications, Laguna Beach, CA. 120 pp.
TRYPTAMINE 4 Fruit Juice *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Flower *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf 4500.0 -0.31 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Pericarp 6000.0 Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Seed *
VALINE 3 Fruit *
VIT-B-6 0 Fruit 1.0 5.0 -0.54 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER 0 Fruit 780000.0 823220.0 0.23 *
WATER 0 Seed 350000.0 0.47 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
WAX 0 Pericarp 8000.0 1.00 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
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List of plant activities.
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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 *