Plant Uncaria catechu (Pedaliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Gambir; Pale Catechu

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
GAMBIRIIN-A1	3	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRIIN-A2	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRIIN-A3	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRIIN-B1	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRIIN-B2	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRIIN-B3	3	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRIIN-C	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRINE	3	Bulb	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRTANNINE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOGAMBIRDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-EPICATECHOL	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-EPICATECHOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MITRAPHYLLINE	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OUROUPARIN	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXOGAMBIRTANNINE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Bulb	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
NO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
Pancreatogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Perfumery	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peroxynitrite-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	8	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	1	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	3	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.