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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Tamarindus indica (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Tamarind; Kilytree; Indian Tamarind
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PENTOSAN 0 Fruit 42000.0 48000.0 -1.00 *
PHENOL 26 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
PHENOL 26 Fruit Essent. Oil 1600.0 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE 2 Fruit Essent. Oil 101100.0 *
PHLOBOTANNIN 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Flower 2200.0 -0.63 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 1080.0 1647.0 -0.48 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 1000.0 2281.0 -0.50 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 2370.0 -0.79 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PIPECOLINIC-ACID 0 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PIPERITONE 7 Fruit Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
POTASSIUM 14 Flower 12700.0 -0.67 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 6280.0 15415.0 -0.22 *
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 11974.0 -0.81 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
POTASSIUM-OXIDE 0 Fruit 1032.0 7654.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PROLINE 0 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROTEIN 0 Flower 125000.0 -0.21 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 28000.0 117000.0 0.10 *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 141000.0 224000.0 0.12 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Seed 128700.0 201000.0 -0.29 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (CNS) 1 *
Antitumor (Colon) 4 *
Antitumor (Gastric) 1 *
Antitumor (Lung) 3 *
Antitumor (Pancreas) 2 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 3 *
Antitumor (Skin) 1 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 2 *
Antitumor-Promoter 1 *
Antitussive 4 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiulcer 9 *
Antiurease 1 *
Antivaginitic 2 *
Antivaricose 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo 2 *
Antiviral 12 *
Antiwrinkle 1 Martindale's 28th
Antixerophthalmic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antixerotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiyeast 1 *