Plant Tabebuia heptaphylla (Bignoniaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pau D'Arco

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
MAGNESIUM	65	Bark	145.0	810.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Bark	0.5	2.7	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Bark	1.0	5.7	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Bark	21.0	120.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Bark	331.0	1850.0	-0.90	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Bark	17184.0	96000.0	0.62	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Bark	not available	0.2	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Bark	1.5	8.4	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Bark	0.7	3.7	-1.14	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Bark	not available	821000.0	0.60	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Bark	0.1	0.7	-1.17	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	1	Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Contraceptive	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Copper-Antagonist	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *