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
11-METHOXYYOHIMBINE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,14-DIHYDROGAMBIRTANNIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,14-DIHYDROGAMBIRTANNIN	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-ACETOXYDIHYDRONOMILIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADIPIC-ACID	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Plant	30000.0	50000.0	-1.28	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CATECHINS	1	Branches	300000.0	350000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHOL	22	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHUTANNIC-ACID	0	Branches	not available	240000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-CATECHIN	4	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROBENZOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROCORYNANTHEIN	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROGAMBIRTANNINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPICATECHIN	40	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIR-CATECHIN	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRDINE	0	Branches	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMBIRFLUORESCEIN	0	Bulb	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
Fungicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	3	Martindale's 29th
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatomagenic	1	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.
Hepatoprotective	3	Mayumi Ito (nee Someya), et al. 1990. Hepatoprotective Compounds from Canarium album and Euphorbia nematocypha. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2201-2203, 1990.
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224.
Hypocholesterolemic	2	Singleton, V.L. 1981. Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants: Phenolic Substances of Plant Origin Common in Foods. Advances in Food Research 27: 149-217.
Hypoglycemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	2	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insulin-Sparing	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.