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
SOMNIROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOMNISOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SOMNITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOMNIWITHANOLIDE	0	Stem Bark	not available	1500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
STEARIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Root	not available	1000.0	-1.25	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TROPANAOL	0	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.
TROPINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VISAMINE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
WITHACNISTIN	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WITHAFERIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WITHAFERIN-A	15	Leaf	400.0	8600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WITHAFERIN-A	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WITHAFERIN-A	15	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WITHAFERIN-A	15	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WITHAFERINE	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.
WITHAFERINIL	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).