Plant Solanum melongena (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Aubergine; Eggplant

How this plant is used

Food

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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
VALINE	3	Fruit	550.0	7063.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	0.9	11.6	0.57	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	905000.0	932000.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Leaf	not available	864000.0	0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	18.0	25.6	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM	0	Fruit	1.4	1.6	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	5	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiulcer	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	8	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *