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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PROTEIN 0 Twig 430000.0 1.00 *
PUFA 4 Fruit 590.0 860.0 -0.78 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PYRAZINES 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PYRIDOXINE 43 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -1.00 *
PYRROLE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 8500.0 *
QUINIC-ACID 1 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Flower 6.0 -0.05 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 1.0 3.0 -0.43 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Leaf 1.0 5.0 -0.15 *
SAFROLE 29 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.
SFA 0 Fruit 2720.0 3965.0 -0.29 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Flower 250.0 -0.47 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SODIUM 1 Fruit 49.0 743.0 -0.11 *
SODIUM 1 Leaf 351.0 -0.58 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 600.0 874.0 -0.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed Oil *
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Fruit *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 200000.0 400000.0 0.77 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SULFUR 14 Leaf 630.0 -0.99 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TAMARINDIENAL 5 Fruit 3350.0 6730.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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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 *