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
Choleretic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Choline-Sparing	1	Singleton, V.L. 1981. Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants: Phenolic Substances of Plant Origin Common in Foods. Advances in Food Research 27: 149-217.
CNS-Depressant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Co-carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Convulsant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
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.
Demulcent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dermatitigenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emollient	1	Martindale's 29th
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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.