Common Names
Castorbean
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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P-COUMARIC-ACID | 25 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
PEROXIDASE | 0 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Leaf | not available | 4600.0 | -0.07 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
PIMELIC-ACID | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
PROTEIN | 0 | Leaf | not available | 248000.0 | 0.36 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
PROTEIN | 0 | Seed | 120000.0 | 250000.0 | 0.14 | Duke, 1992 * |
QUERCETIN | 176 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE | 1 | Leaf | not available | 310.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-XYLOPYRANOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | 4.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-RUTINOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | 40.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
QUERCITRIN | 44 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
REDUCTASE | 0 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Seed | not available | 1.0 | -0.97 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
RIBONUCLEASE | 2 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
RICIN | 12 | Seed | not available | 3000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
RICININE | 3 | Leaf | 700.0 | 5500.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
RICINOLEIC-ACID | 7 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
RICINOLEIC-ACID-ESTERS | 0 | Seed | 43200.0 | 48600.0 | not available | 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. |
RUTIN | 87 | Leaf | not available | 2000.0 | -0.88 | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Radioprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Respirastimulant | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
Ribosome-Inactivator | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Rodenticide | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Secretogogue | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Sedative | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Serotoninergic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
Soap | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Spermicide | 2 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
Styptic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Sunscreen | 5 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
Sweetener | 1 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
Teratologic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Topoisomerase-I-Antagonist | 1 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999. |
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor | 4 | Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237. |
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor | 5 | Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225. |
Tranquilizer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Tumorigenic | 1 | Jim Duke's personal files. |