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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Tabebuia heptaphylla (Bignoniaceae)

Common Names
Pau D'Arco
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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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 *
MANGANESE 14 Bark 0.5 2.7 -0.66 *
NIACIN 39 Bark 1.0 5.7 -0.91 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Bark 21.0 120.0 -0.91 *
POTASSIUM 14 Bark 331.0 1850.0 -0.90 *
PROTEIN 0 Bark 17184.0 96000.0 0.62 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Bark *
SELENIUM 60 Bark 0.2 -0.59 *
SILICON 4 Bark 1.5 8.4 -0.38 *
SODIUM 1 Bark *
THIAMIN 31 Bark Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE 0 Bark *
TIN 4 Bark 0.7 3.7 -1.14 *
WATER 0 Bark 821000.0 0.60 *
ZINC 77 Bark 0.1 0.7 -1.17 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antileukotriene 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipoperoxidant 1 *
Antilithic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilupus 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme 5 *
Antilymphomic 2 *
Antilymphosarcomic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antimaculitic 4 *
Antimalarial 1 *
Antimastalgic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanomic 2 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 4 *
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 2 *
Antimigraine 4 Martindale's 29th
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 *
AntiMS 1 *