Plant Selenicereus grandiflorus (Cactaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Night-Blooming Cereus, Queen-of-the-Night

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
BETA-CYANIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CACTICINE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CACTINE	1	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
GRANDIFLORINE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
HORDENINE	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
HYPEROSIDE	30	Flower	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISORHAMNETIN-3-BETA-GALACTOSYL-RUTINOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISORHAMNETIN-3-BETA-XYLOSYL-RUTINOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISORHAMNETIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
KAEMPFERITRIN	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NARCISSIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RUTIN	87	Flower	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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List of plant activities.
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Activity Sort descending	Chemical Count	Reference
5-HT-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for 5-HT-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2 (View Chemicals list for Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	1 (View Chemicals list for Allelochemic)	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	1 (View Chemicals list for Analgesic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiaggregant)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiaging)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiallergic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiapoplectic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiapoplectic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiasthmatic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiatherogenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiatherosclerotic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	2 (View Chemicals list for Antibacterial)	Planta Medica, 57: A43, 1991.
Anticancer	2 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer)	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	2 (View Chemicals list for Anticapillary-Fragility)	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticataract	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticataract)	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticlastogen)	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticonvulsant)	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
AntiCVI	1 (View Chemicals list for AntiCVI)	Duke, 1992 *
Antidementia	1 (View Chemicals list for Antidementia)	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.