Plant Sterculia urens (Sterculiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Karaya

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
ACETIC-ACID	16	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CELLULOSE	0	Wood	not available	239248.0	-1.73	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Gum	not available	59200.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-D-GALACTOSE	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN	13	Bark	not available	50.0	-0.40	Jim Duke's personal files.
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	not available	280000.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
D-GALACTOSE	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-GALACTURONIC-ACID	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-GLUCURONIC-ACID	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Gum	not available	2800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	200000.0	260000.0	-0.03	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Gum	not available	4100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Gum	not available	123000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-RHAMNOSE	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNOCERIC-ACID	1	Seed	3740.0	4082.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	4840.0	6292.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Gum	700000.0	750000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	9300.0	12090.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	133180.0	173134.0	0.44	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
Fungicide	3	Martindale's 29th
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hepatoprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypocholesterolemic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 165
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Irritant	2	Merck 11th Edition
Keratitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.