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

Common Names
Beleric Myrobalan; Bahera; Myrobalan Belleric; Myrobalan; Belleric
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
TERMILIGNAN 2 Pericarp Valsaraj, R., Pushpangadan, P., Smitt, U. W., Adeersen, A., Christensen, S. B., Sittie, A., Nyman, U., Nielsen, C., Oslen, C. E. 1997. New Anti-HIV-1, Antimalarial, and Antifungal Compounds from Terminalia bellerica. J. Nat. Prod. 60 7: 739-742.
THANNILIGNAN 0 Pericarp Valsaraj, R., Pushpangadan, P., Smitt, U. W., Adeersen, A., Christensen, S. B., Sittie, A., Nyman, U., Nielsen, C., Oslen, C. E. 1997. New Anti-HIV-1, Antimalarial, and Antifungal Compounds from Terminalia bellerica. J. Nat. Prod. 60 7: 739-742.
TRITRIACONTAN-9-ONE 0 Fruit Ali, M. 1992. Chemical Examination of Fruits of Terminalia belerica Roxb. Orient. J. Chem. 8 3: 255-256.
WATER 0 Fruit 61000.0 -3.09 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
WATER 0 Leaf 751000.0 780000.0 -0.14 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
Antiophidic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiophthalmic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiosteoporotic 2 *
Antioxidant 9 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.
Antiperiodontic 1 *
Antiperiodontitic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperoxidant 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiplaque 1 *
Antiplasmodial 2 Rukunga, G. and Simons, A. J. 2006. The Potential of Plants as a Source of Antimalarial Agents - A Review. Africa Herbal Antimalaria Meeting. PlantaPhile Publications, Berlin. 72 pp.
AntiPMS 1 *
Antipolio 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprostaglandin 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 2 *
Antiproteolytic 1 *
Antipyretic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiradicular 4 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
AntiReye's 1 Martindale's 29th