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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
METHYL-FURAN 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 4100.0 *
METHYL-GLUTAMIC-ACID 0 Sprout Seedling ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
METHYL-SALICYLATE 21 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.
METHYLENEGLUTAMIC-ACID 0 Sprout Seedling ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
METHYLENEGLUTAMINE 0 Sprout Seedling ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MUCILAGE 3 Seed *
MUFA 13 Fruit 1810.0 2640.0 -0.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRCENE 22 Fruit Essent. Oil *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Fruit 70.0 102.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed Oil *
N-METHYLPYRROLE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 2800.0 *
N-OCTADECANE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 1500.0 *
NEROL 10 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
NIACIN 39 Flower 60.0 -0.34 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NIACIN 39 Fruit 16.0 33.0 -0.37 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NIACIN 39 Leaf 66.0 -0.38 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NONAN-1-AL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 2000.0 *
OCTAN-1-OL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 2300.0 -1.00 *
OCTANOIC-ACID 5 Fruit Essent. Oil 2200.0 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 1810.0 2638.0 -0.46 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cancer-Preventive 31 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 9 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Candidistat 2 *
Carcinogenic 5 Science News, 146: 421.
Cardioprotective 6 *
Cardiotonic 2 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Carminative 4 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Chelator 1 *
Chemopreventive 5 *
Choleretic 4 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Choline-Sparing 1 *
Chronotropic 1 *
Cicatrizant 1 *
Circulatory-Stimulant 1 *
Circulotonic 1 *
CNS-Depressant 5 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.
CNS-Paralytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.