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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
TAMARINDUL-GALACTOXYLOGLUCAN 0 Seed *
TAMARINDUS-OLIGOSACCHARIDE 0 Seed *
TANNIN 35 Bark 70000.0 -0.62 *
TANNIN 35 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TANNIN 35 Bl 70000.0 *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Fruit 80000.0 180000.0 2.55 *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Leaf 120000.0 280000.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Fruit *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Fruit Essent. Oil *
THIAMIN 31 Flower 4.0 -0.38 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 2.0 9.0 0.47 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 4.0 -0.90 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 180.0 262.0 -0.83 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
URONIC-ACID 0 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
VITEXIN 18 Leaf 28.5 *
WATER 0 Fruit 314000.0 -1.99 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insulinogenic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Irritant 17 *
Keratitigenic 1 *
Keratolytic 2 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 1 *
Larvistat 1 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative 5 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Lipolytic 1 *
Lipotropic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 3 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 2 Martindale's 29th
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MAO-Inhibitor 1 *