Plant Vitellaria paradoxa (Sapotaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Butterseed; Shea Nut; Shea-Butter-Tree; Sheatree; Shea

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
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	not available	2115.0	-1.13	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	not available	430.0	-1.30	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Seed	not available	290.0	-0.57	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	73000.0	-1.43	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Itoh, O., Uetsuki, T., Tamura, T., Matsumoto, A. 1980. Characterization of Triterpene Alcohols of Seed Oils From Some Species of Theaceae, Phytolaccaceae and Sapotaceae. Lipids 15 6: 407-411.
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	215660.0	233020.0	4.49	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed Oil	not available	459000.0	2.82	Adomako, D. 1977. Fatty Acid Composition and Characteristics of Pentadesma Butyracea Fat Extracted From Ghana Seeds. J. Sci. Food Agr. 28: 384-386.
STIGMASTEROL	12	Seed	not available	10.0	-0.52	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
TARAXASTEROL	2	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Itoh, O., Uetsuki, T., Tamura, T., Matsumoto, A. 1980. Characterization of Triterpene Alcohols of Seed Oils From Some Species of Theaceae, Phytolaccaceae and Sapotaceae. Lipids 15 6: 407-411.
TARAXEROL	2	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Itoh, O., Uetsuki, T., Tamura, T., Matsumoto, A. 1980. Characterization of Triterpene Alcohols of Seed Oils From Some Species of Theaceae, Phytolaccaceae and Sapotaceae. Lipids 15 6: 407-411.
THIAMIN	31	Seed	not available	5.6	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
TIRUCALLA-7-24-DIEN-3-BETA-OL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Itoh, O., Uetsuki, T., Tamura, T., Matsumoto, A. 1980. Characterization of Triterpene Alcohols of Seed Oils From Some Species of Theaceae, Phytolaccaceae and Sapotaceae. Lipids 15 6: 407-411.
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	not available	800.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Seed	not available	1020.0	-1.35	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
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	4	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Keratolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Monoamine-Precursor	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mosquitocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.