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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
FLUORIDE 3 Plant 0.2 0.3 -0.83 *
FRIEDELIN 2 Bark *
FRIEDELIN 2 Stem Bark *
FRIEDOOLEANAN-3-ONE 0 Stem Bark 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 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit Juice *
FUMARIC-ACID 7 Fruit *
GALLAGYLDILACTON 0 Leaf *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Fruit Juice *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Pericarp 900.0 40000.0 -1.00 *
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.
GALLOCATECHIN-(4,8)-CATECHIN 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.
GALLOCATECHIN-(4,8)-GALLOCATECHIN 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.
GALLOTANNINS 0 Pericarp 200000.0 280000.0 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL 14 Seed *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit 50000.0 110000.0 0.27 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit Juice *
GLYCERIN 1 Twig 300.0 Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
GRANATIN-A 2 Leaf *
GRANATIN-A 2 Pericarp *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antifibrosarcomic 2 *
Antifibrotic 1 *
Antiflu 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antigallstone 2 *
Antigastric 3 *
Antigastrisecretogogic 1 Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Antigastritic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigenotoxic 1 *
Antigingivitic 5 *
Antiglaucomic 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular 1 *
Antigrey 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF 2 *
Antihangover 4 *
Antiheartburn 1 *
Antihematuric 1 *