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Common Names
Periwinkle; Running-Myrtle
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUERCETIN-3-ROBINOBIOSIDE-7-RHAMNOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| RESERPINE | 32 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RESERPINE | 32 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RESERPINE | 32 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ROBININ | 10 | Flower | not available | 4000.0 | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| ROBINOSIDE | 0 | Flower | not available | 4000.0 | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| RUBBER | 0 | Plant | not available | 9700.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SAPONIN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| STRICTAMINE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STRICTOSIDINE-GLUCOSIDASE-I | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STRICTOSIDINE-GLUCOSIDASE-II | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIN | 35 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| TRIACONTANE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| URSOLIC-ACID | 89 | Leaf | 1400.0 | 37000.0 | 0.42 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| URSOLIC-ACID | 89 | Plant | 2400.0 | 13400.0 | -0.16 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| VANILLIC-ACID | 24 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| VENOTERPINE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VICADINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VICAMINOREINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VINCADIFFORMINE | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Abortifacient | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Adrenolytic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor | 2 | Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110. |
| Allelopathic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Allergenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Analgesic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Androgenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anesthetic | 1 | Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp. |
| Angiogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anorexic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Anthelmintic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiacetylcholinesterase | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiadrenergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialcoholic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antialzheimeran | 1 | Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215. |
| Antiandrogenic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antiarrhythmic | 2 | 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 407. |
| Antiarthritic | 1 | Planta Medica, 57: A56, 1991. |