Plant Quisqualis indica (Combretaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Rangoon Creeper

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	110860.0	130140.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	67160.0	78840.0	0.93	Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSAN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	not available	19900.0	0.18	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-QUISQUALATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-SULFATE	0	Seed	39000.0	41711.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	107000.0	114438.0	-1.06	Duke, 1992 *
QUISQUALIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Fruit	not available	36.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	20930.0	24570.0	-0.03	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIGONELLINE	15	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	not available	65000.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	not available	22.0	-0.25	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
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
Insectifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insulinogenic	2	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
Irritant	3	Merck 11th Edition
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic	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
Leucocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Litholytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Mucogenic	1	Li, K.M. Effect of zinc sulphate on acetic acid-induced gastric ulceration in rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 657-659, 1990.
Mutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Nematicide	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nephrotoxic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroinhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter	2	Duke, 1992 *