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

Common Names

Ashwagandha

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
QUERCETIN-3-RUTINOSIDE-7-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINIC-ACID	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QURESIMINE-A	0	Plant	not available	0.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QURESIMINE-B	0	Plant	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLETIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SITOINDOSIDE-IX	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOINDOSIDE-VII	0	Root	not available	76.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOINDOSIDE-VIII	0	Root	not available	24.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOINDOSIDE-X	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOINDOSIDES	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
SOMINOLIDE	0	Plant	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOMINONE	0	Plant	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOMNIFERANOLIDE	0	Stem Bark	not available	1400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOMNIFERAWITHANOLIDE	0	Stem Bark	not available	150.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOMNIFERIANINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
SOMNIFERICIN	0	Plant	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOMNIFERINE	2	Root	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.
SOMNIFERININE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOMNINE	0	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
Antiasthmatic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).