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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Syzygium claviflorum (Myrtaceae)

How this plant is used
Medicinal
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ARJUNOLIC-ACID 5 Leaf 85.0 1.00 Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
ASIATIC-ACID 1 Leaf 40.0 Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Leaf 205.0 -0.95 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID 64 Leaf 14.0 -0.83 Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
PALATANIC-ACID 0 Leaf Fujioka, T., et. al. 1994. Anti-AIDS agents, 11. Betulinic Acid and Platanic Acid as Anti-HIV Principles from Syzygium claviflorum, and the Anti-HIV Activity of Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod. 57 2: 243-247.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf 20.0 -0.42 Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antifertility 1 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 *
Antigingivitic 1 *
Antihepatotoxic 2 *
Antihistaminic 1 Tsuruga, T., Chun, Y.-T., Ebizuka, Y., and Sankawa, U. 1991. Biologically Active Constituents of Melaleuca leucadendron: Inhibitors of Induced Histamine Release from Rat Mast Cells. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 39(12): 3276-3278, 1991.
AntiHIV 3 Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
Antihyperlipidemic 2 *
Antiinflammatory 3 Recio, M., et al. 1994. Investigations on the Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Triterpenoids from Diospyros leucomelas*. Planta Medica, 61: 9.
Antiischemic 1 *
Antileishmanic 1 *
Antileukemic 3 *
Antileukotriene 1 *
Antilymphomic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antimalarial 3 *
Antimelanomic 1 New York Times, 3/28/95.
Antimetastatic 1 *
Antimutagenic 1 *
Antinephritic 2 *
Antinociceptive 1 *
Antiobesity? 1 Internat. J. Oriental Med. 16: 4.