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Plant Terminalia bellirica (Combretaceae)

Common Names
Beleric Myrobalan; Bahera; Myrobalan Belleric; Myrobalan; Belleric
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
DOTRIACONTAN-2-OL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Ali, M. 1992. Chemical Examination of Fruits of Terminalia belerica Roxb. Orient. J. Chem. 8 3: 255-256.
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Bark not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Leaf not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Wood not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ETHYL-GALLATE 5 Fruit not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FAT 0 Leaf not available 47000.0 -0.19 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT 0 Seed 250000.0 700000.0 2.29 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FIBER 15 Leaf 74000.0 186000.0 0.30 Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN 2 Seed not available not available not available Singh, P., Sharma, S. 1997. Triterpenoid Constituents of the Seeds of Diospyros melanoxylon, Tecomella undulata and Terminalia bellirica. J. Indian Chem. Soc. 74 6: 504-505.
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FRUCTOSE 8 Seed not available not available not available Singh, P., Sharma, S. 1997. Triterpenoid Constituents of the Seeds of Diospyros melanoxylon, Tecomella undulata and Terminalia bellirica. J. Indian Chem. Soc. 74 6: 504-505.
GALACTOSE 1 Fruit not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GALACTOSE 1 Seed not available not available not available Singh, P., Sharma, S. 1997. Triterpenoid Constituents of the Seeds of Diospyros melanoxylon, Tecomella undulata and Terminalia bellirica. J. Indian Chem. Soc. 74 6: 504-505.
GALLIC-ACID 62 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GLUCOSE 7 Seed not available not available not available Singh, P., Sharma, S. 1997. Triterpenoid Constituents of the Seeds of Diospyros melanoxylon, Tecomella undulata and Terminalia bellirica. J. Indian Chem. Soc. 74 6: 504-505.
HENTRIACONTAN-16-ONE 0 Stem Bark not available not available not available Bajpai, N., Tiwari, J. S. 1994. A Note on the Phytochemical Investigation of Terminalia Genus. J. Indian Chem. Soc. 71 10: 643.
HEXAHYDROXY-DIPHENACYL-HEPTAHYDROXY-DIPHENACYLATE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Ali, M., Bhutani, K. K. 1991. Occurrence of Hexahydroxydiphenic Acid Ester in Terminalia belerica Fruits. Indian J. Nat. Prod. 7 1: 16-17.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 72475.0 202930.0 0.82 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiescherichic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifeedant 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antiflu 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antigingivitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiherpetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
AntiHIV 3 Tan, G.T., Pezzuto, J.M., Kinghorn,* A.D., Hughes, S.H. Evaluation Of Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 143-154, 1991.
Antihyperkinetic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 3 Duke, 1992 *