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Passiflora incarnata L.


Botanical Name	:	Passiflora incarnata L.
English Name	:	Maypops, Apricot vine, Purple passionflower
Family	:	Passifloraceae

General Info

Description

A climbing vine, 7—10 m long. Leaves alternate, 3-lobed, serrulate, petiolate, to +15cm long, +13cm wide, glabrous. Petioles with two glands near base of leaf blade. Flowers are typically 6-7cm broad, purplish-white in colour, with a terminal appendage. Fruit an ovoid berry, about 5 cm long, yellow.

Herb Effects

A valuable non-addictive sedative and tranquilliser, slightly reduces blood pressure and increases respiratory rate (plant); antispasmodic, astringent, diaphoretic, hypnotic, narcotic, sedative and vasodilator (leaves and stems).

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Chemistry

Active Ingredients

Apigenin, harmaline, harmalol, harmol, isoorientin, isovitexin, kaempferol, luteolin, orientin, raffinose, rutin, stigmasterol, sucrose, vitexin (plant); glutamine, phenylalanine (fruit); harmine (shoot); quercetin, umbelliferone, valine (leaf); scopoletin, tyrosine (root).

Chemistry of Active Ingredients

Name

CAS#

IUPAC Name

Formula

Structure

Apigenin

520-36-5

4,5-dihydroxy-2-(4-h
ydroxyphenyl)-chrome
n-7-one

C₁₅H₁₀O₅

Harmaline

304-21-2

Not Available

C₁₃H₁₄N₂O

Harmalol

Not Available

C₁₂H₁₂N₂O

Harmol

Not Available

C₁₂H₁₀N₂O

Isoorientin

Not Available

2-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)-4,7-dihydroxy-8-
[3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-
(hydroxyme thyl)tet
rahydropyran-2-yl]-c
hromen-5-one

C₂₁H₂₀O₁₁

Luteolin

Not Available

2-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)-4,5-dihydroxy-ch
romen-7-one

C₁₅H₁₀O₆

Orientin

28608-75-5

2-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)-4,7-dihydroxy-8-
[3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-
(hydroxyme thyl)oxa
n-2-yl]-chromen-5-on
e

C₂₁H₂₀O₁₁

Raffinose

Not Available

(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[
[(2R,3R,4S,5R,6R)-6-
[(2S,3S,4R,5R)-3,4-d
ihydroxy-2 ,5-bis(h
ydroxymethyl)oxolan-
2-yl]oxy-3,4,5-trihy
droxy-oxan-2-yl]meth
ox y]-6-(hydroxymet
hyl)oxane-3,4,5-trio
l

C₁₈H₃₂O₁₆

Rutin

Not Available

2-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)-4,5-dihydroxy-3-
[3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-
[(3,4,5-tr ihydroxy
-6-methyl-tetrahydro
pyran-2-yl)oxymethyl
]tetrahydropyran-2-y
l] oxy-chromen-7-on
e trihydrate

C₂₇H₃₆O₁₉

Stigmasterol

4736-55-4

17-(4-ethyl-1,5-dime
thyl-hex-2-enyl)-10,
13-dimethyl-1,2,4,5,
6,7,8,9,10 ,11,12,1
3,14,15,16,17-hexade
cahydrocyclopenta[a]
phenanthren-3-one

C₂₉H₄₈O

Sucrose

Not Available

2-[3,4-dihydroxy-2,5
-bis(hydroxymethyl)o
xolan-2-yl]oxy-6-(hy
droxymethy l)oxane-
3,4,5-triol

C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁

Vitexin

521-33-5

4,7-dihydroxy-2-(4-h
ydroxyphenyl)-8-[3,4
,5-trihydroxy-6-(hyd
roxymethyl )oxan-2-
yl]-chromen-5-one

C₂₁H₂₀O₁₀

Glutamine

6899-04-3

2-amino-4-carbamoyl-
butanoic acid

C₅H₁₀N₂O₃

Phenylalanine

3617-44-5

2-amino-3-phenyl-pro
panoic acid

C₉H₁₁NO₂

Harmine

442-51-3

Not Available

C₁₃H₁₂N₂O

Quercetin

Not Available

2-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)-3,4,5-trihydroxy
-chromen-7-one

C₁₅H₁₀O₇

Umbelliferone

93-35-6

2-hydroxychromen-7-o
ne

C₉H₆O₃

Valine

7004-03-7

2-amino-3-methyl-but
anoic acid

C₅H₁₁NO₂

Scopoletin

92-61-5

2-hydroxy-6-methoxy-
chromen-7-one

C₁₀H₈O₄

Tyrosine

556-02-5

2-amino-3-(4-hydroxy
phenyl)-propanoic
acid

C₉H₁₁NO₃

Pharmacology

Medicinal Use

Used in the treatment of insomnia, epilepsy, hysteria, nervous tension, irritability, neuralgia, irritable bowel syndrome, pre-menstrual tension and vaginal discharges (plant); in the treatment of women's complaints (leaves and stems); applied as a poultice to boils, cuts, earaches, inflammations etc. (roots).

Contraindication

Contraindicated in pregnancy.

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