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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
CASUARININ 4 Bark Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
CASUARININ 4 Leaf *
CASUARININ 4 Plant Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
CASUARININ 4 Stem Bark 3200.0 *
CATECHIN 43 Fruit Juice *
CATECHIN 43 Leaf *
CATECHIN-(4,8)-GALLOCATECHIN 0 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.
CATECHINS 1 Fruit Newman, R. A., Lansky, E. P., with Block, M. L. 2007. Pomegranate - The Most Medicinal Fruit. Basic Health Publications, Laguna Beach, CA. 120 pp.
CEREBROSIDE 0 Seed *
CHLORINE 7 Fruit 20.0 -0.69 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Fruit *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Fruit Juice *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Leaf *
CHOLESTEROL 1 Seed *
CINNAMIC-ACID 18 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.
CIS-9,TRANS-11,CIS-13-TRIENE-ACID 0 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CITRIC-ACID 23 Fruit Juice 8100.0 12300.0 -1.00 *
CONIFERYL-9-O-[BETA-D-APIOFURANOSYL(1-6)]-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Seed *
CONIINE 2 Plant Willaman, J. J., Schubert, B. G. 1961. Alkaloid Bearing Plants and their Contained Alkaloids. ARS, USDA, Tech. Bull. 1234, Supt. Doc., Washington D.C.
CONJUGATED-LINOLEIC-ACID 3 Seed *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Poultice 1 Martindale's 29th
Prebiotic 1 *
Preservative 2 Merck 11th Edition
Probiotic 1 *
Probiotigenic 1 *
Progestational 1 *
Progesteronigenic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Proliferant 2 *
Prooxidant 6 *
Propecic 6 *
Prostaglandigenic 4 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 5 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor 1 *
Protease-Inhibitor 2 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 3 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 3 Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
Psychotropic 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.
PTK-Inhibitor 3 *
Purgative 1 Martindale's 28th
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 6 Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.