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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Sarcostemma acidum (Asclepiadaceae)

Common Names
Soma
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
ALPHA-AMYRIN 10 Plant *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Plant *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
CAOUTCHOUC 0 Latex Exudate 41000.0 -0.33 *
LUPEOL 21 Plant *
LUPEOL-ACETATE 2 Plant *
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Plant *
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Plant *
SUCROSE 14 Plant *
TANNIN 35 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Additive 1 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aggregant 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Analgesic 2 (View) *
Androgenic 1 (View) *
Angiogenic 1 (View) *
Anorexic 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 1 (View) *
Antiadenomic 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Antiandrogenic 1 (View) Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic 1 (View) *
Antiatherosclerotic 1 (View) *
Antibacterial 3 (View) Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 (View) Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 (View) *
Anticariogenic 1 (View) *
Antidiarrheic 1 (View) *
Antidysenteric 1 (View) *
AntiEBV 1 (View) *