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Common Names
Coffee Senna
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OXYMETHYLANTHRAQUINONE | 0 | Seed | not available | 2500.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYSCION | 5 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYSCION-1-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYSCION-DIANTHRONE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Seed | not available | 9560.0 | -0.26 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Seed | 181000.0 | 249000.0 | 0.14 | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUERCETIN | 176 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RHEIN | 18 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Seed | not available | 45.0 | -0.64 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIC-ACID | 41 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIN | 35 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| XANTHORIN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ZINC | 77 | Seed | not available | 41.0 | -0.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Estrogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FLavor | 2 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 4 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Genotoxic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotropic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemostat | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatomagenic | 1 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotoxic | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| HIV-RT-Inhibitor | 1 | Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990. |
| Hyperglycemic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Hypertensive | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Hypocholesterolemic | 7 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Hypoglycemic | 2 | Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989. |
| Hypolipidemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypotensive | 4 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Immunomodulator | 4 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Immunostimulant | 3 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |