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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Terminalia arjuna (Combretaceae)

Common Names
Arjun; Arjuna
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
TERMINIC-ACID 0 Root Bark 2.0 Anjaneyulu, A. S. R., Rama Prasad, A. V. 1982. Chemical Examination of Roots of Terminalia arjuna (Roxb.) Wight & Arnot: Part I-Characterization of Two New Triterpenoid Glycosides. Indian J. Chem. 21B 6: 530-533.
TERMINOIC-ACID 0 Bark 40.0 Ahmad, M. U., Mullah, K. B., Norin, T., Ulla, J. K. 1983. Terminoic Acid, a New Trihydroxytriterpene Carboxylic Acid from Bark of Terminalia arjuna. Indian J. Chem. 22B 8: 738-740.
TERMINOIC-ACID 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
TERMINOLITIN 0 Fruit 19.3 Singh, B., Singh, V. P., Pandey, V. B., Rucker, G. 1995. A New Triterpene Glycoside from Terminalia arjuna. Planta Med. 61 6: 576-577.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 Fukutake, M., Yokota, S., Kawamura, H., Iizuka, A., Amagaya, S., Fukuda, K., Komatsu, Y. 1998. Inhibitory effect of Coptidis rhizoma adn Scutellariae radix on azoxymethane-induced aberrant crypt foci formation in rat colon. Biol Pharm Bull, 21(8): 814-817
COX-2-Inhibitor 2 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 4 *
Cytotoxic 3 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 359.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Detoxicant 1 *
Differentiator 1 *
Diuretic 7 *
Elastase-Inhibitor 1 *
Emetic 1 Martindale's 28th
Estrogenic 2 *
Fatal 2 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide 2 *
Gastroprotective 1 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 *