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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Trichosanthes kirilowii (Cucurbitaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Cucumber
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
24-ETHYL-5-ALPHA-CHOLESTA-7,22,25-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed *
24-ETHYL-5-ALPHA-CHOLESTA-7,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed *
24-ETHYL-5ALPHA-CHOLESTA-5,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Plant *
24-ETHYLCHOLESTA-7,24(25)-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Plant *
7-STIGMASTEROL 0 Root *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL 2 Seed *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL-6'-(Z,Z)-9,12-OCTADECADIENOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Root *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL-6'-PALMITYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Root *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL-PALMITATE 0 Root *
ALPHA-SPINASTERYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Root *
ALPHA-TRICHOSANTHIN 0 Root *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Root *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed *
COMPOUND-Q 0 Root *
DELTA-7-CAMPESTEROL 0 Seed *
DELTA-7-STIGMASTENOL 0 Seed *
DELTA-7-STIGMASTENOL-6'-(Z,Z)-9,12-OCTADECADIENOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Root *
DELTA-7-STIGMASTENOL-6'-PALMITYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Root *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 2 *
Abortifacient 1 *
Allergenic 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Androgenic 1 *
Anemiagenic 1 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiacne 1 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
AntiAIDS 1 *
Antialopecic 2 *
Antianaphylactic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 *
Antiarthritic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antibacterial 1 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *