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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Withania somnifera (Solanaceae)

Common Names
Ashwagandha
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
27-HYDROXYWITHANOLIDE-D 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
3-ALPHA-TIGLOYLOXYTROPANE 0 Root *
3-TIGLOYLHYDROXYTROPANE 0 Root Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu
Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
3-TROPYLTIGLOATE 0 Root *
3ALPHA-TIGLOYOXYTROPANE 0 Root *
4-BETA-20-ALPHA-(R)-DIHYDROXY-1-OXO-5-BETA-6-BETA-EPOXYWITH-2-ENOLIDE 0 Leaf 500.0 *
4-BETA-20-ALPHA-DIHYDROXY-1-OXO-5-BETA-6-BETA-EPOXYWITHA-2-24-DIENOLIDE 0 Leaf *
4-BETA-HYDROXY-1-OXO-5-BETA-6-BETA-EPOXYWITH-2-ENOLIDE 0 Leaf 30.0 *
4-BETA-HYDROXYWITHANOLIDE 5 Leaf *
4-DEOXYPHYSALOLACTONE 0 Shoot 80.0 *
4-O-CAFFEOYLQUINIC-ACID 1 Leaf *
5,20ALPHA-(R)-DIHYROXY-6ALPHA,7ALPHA-EPOXY-1-OXO-(5ALPHA)-WITHA-2,24-DIENOLIDE 0 Plant *
5,24-STIGMASTADIEN-3-OL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5,6-EPOXY-20-HYDROXY-1,4-DIOXO-2,24-WITHADIENOLIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5,6-EPOXY-20-HYDROXY-1,4-DIOXO-2-WITHENOLIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5,6-EPOXY-4,17-DIHYDROXY-1-OXO-2,24-WITHADIENOLIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5,6-EPOXY-4,20-DIHYDROXY-1-OXO-2-WITHENOLIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5,6-EPOXY-4,20-DIHYDROXY-1-OXO-24-WITHENOLIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
5-ALPHA-20-ALPHA-(R)-DIHYDROXY-6-ALPHA-7-ALPHA-EPOXY-1-OXOWITHA-2,24-DIENOLIDE 0 Root 180.0 *
5-ALPHA-27-HYDROXY-6-ALPHA-7-ALPHA-EPOXY-1-OXOWITHA-2,24-DIENOLIDE 0 Root 5.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiasthmatic 2 *
Antiatherogenic 1 *
Antiatherosclerotic 3 *
Antibacterial 7 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibiotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antibronchoconstrictor 1 *
Anticancer 1 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *
Anticancer (Colon) 1 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 1 *
Anticancer (Liver) 1 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 1 *
Anticapillary-Fragility 1 Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic 1 *
Anticarcinomic 1 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic 1 *
Anticataract 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).