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Botanical Name |
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Sarcostemma acidum Voigt |
English
Name |
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Moon Plant |
Synonym(s) |
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Sarcostemma brevistigma Wight & Arn. |
Family |
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Asclepiadaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A usually leafless jointed shrub, up to 1 m or more long, with green straggling branches. Flowers white or pale greenish white, fragrant, in umbels; follicles tapering at both ends, 10-12 cm long; seeds flat, ovate, comose, coma 2 cm long. |
| Herb Effects |
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Emetic and hypothermic (stem) |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Lupeol acetate, alpha and beta-amyrin acetate and beta-sitosterol (twig). malic acid, succinic acid, a phytosterol, a- and ß-amyrins, lupeol, lupeol acetate and ß-sitosterol (plant) |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Lupeol acetate |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C32H52O2 |
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| alpha-Amyrin |
638-95-9 |
4,4,6a,6b,8a,11,12,1
4b-octamethyl-2,3,4a
,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,
12a,14,14a
-tetrade
cahydro-1H-picen-3-o
l |
C30H50O |
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| beta-Amyrin |
559-70-6 |
4,4,6a,6b,8a,11,11,1
4b-octamethyl-1,2,3,
4a,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,1
2a,14,14a-
tetradec
ahydropicen-3-ol |
C30H50O |
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| Beta-Sitosterol |
5779-62-4 |
17-(5-ethyl-6-methyl
-heptan-2-yl)-10,13-
dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9
,11,12,14,
15,16,17
-dodecahydro-1H-cycl
openta[a]phenanthren
-3-ol |
C29H50O |
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| Malic acid |
Not Available |
2-hydroxybutanedioic
acid |
C4H6O5 |
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| Succinic acid |
6283-68-7 |
butanedioic acid |
C4H6O4 |
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| Phytosterol |
83-46-5 |
17-(5-ethyl-6-methyl
-heptan-2-yl)-10,13-
dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9
,11,12,14,
15,16,17
-dodecahydro-1H-cycl
openta[a]phenanthren
-3-ol |
C29H50O |
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| Lupeol |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C30H50O |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Antidotes for snakebite and rabies (root); emetic, as antidote for bite of rabid dogs (stem). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
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