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
FIBER	15	Fruit	9000.0	137000.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Fruit	0.1	2.6	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
GABA	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HYDROXYGLUTAMIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	2010.0	24907.0	0.91	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	320.0	5452.0	0.71	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCOALKALOIDS	0	Fruit	280.0	470.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Fruit	240.0	3098.0	0.97	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	3.0	137.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	155.0	1140.0	1.97	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Fruit	480.0	5948.0	0.69	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSCOPOLETIN	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Fruit	250.0	3370.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Leaf	150.0	2790.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Fruit	1.4	1.6	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	570.0	8550.0	0.73	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	350.0	4337.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
LITHIUM	11	Fruit	0.3	0.3	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
LUBIMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Prooxidant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Xu, L. N., Yu, W. G., Tian, J. Y., Liu, Q. Y. 1990. Effect of Sodium Ferulate on Arachidonic Acid Metabolism. Yao Hsueh Hsueh Pao, 25(6): 412-416.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Respirastimulant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Roborant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Rodenticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Scabicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	5	Duke, 1992 *
Serotoninergic	2	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.
Spasmogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.