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

Common Names

Cat's Claw; Garabato Amarillo; Una de Gato

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
RHYNCHOPHYLLINE	23	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHYNCHOPHYLLINE-N-OXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ROTUNDIFOLINE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Van Ginkel, A. 1996. Identification of the Alkaloids and Flavonoids from Uncaria tomentosa Bark by TLC in Quality Control. Phytotherapy Research, 10: S18-S19.
SPECIOPHYLLINE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPECIOPHYLLINE	1	Leaf	not available	10800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPECIOPHYLLINE	1	Root	not available	6600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPECIOPHYLLINE	1	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPECIOPHYLLINE	1	Stem Bark	80.0	1600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UNCARINE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UNCARINE-F	1	Leaf	not available	2800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UNCARINE-F	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Fernando Cabieses, 1994.
UNCARINE-F	1	Root	not available	3100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UNCARINE-F	1	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UNCARINE-F	1	Stem Bark	30.0	630.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Plant	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
Piscicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	4	Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	1	Lee, S. K., Song, Y., Mata-Greenwood, E., Kelloff, G. J., Steele, V. E., Pezzuto, J. M. 1999. Modulation of in vitro Biomarkers of the Carcinogenic Process by Chemopreventive Agents. Anticancer Res., 19: 35-44.
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Sedative	4	Duke, 1992 *
Serotonergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sodium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Sunscreen	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Sympatholytic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
TOPO-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Bernard, F. X., Sable, S., Cameron, B., Provost, J., Desnottes, J. F., Crouzet, J., Blanche, F. 1997. Glycosylated Flavones as Selective Inhibitors of Topoisomerase IV. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy, 41: 992-998.
Toxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Trypanocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.