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Botanical Name |
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Adenanthera pavonia L. |
English
Name |
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Coral Wood, red beadtree, barbados pride, beadtree, circassian bean, coral bean tree, false wiliwili, peacock flower-fence, Polynesian peanut, red sandalwood tree, red sanderswood, sandalwood-tree. |
Family |
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Mimosaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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Slender, medium-size tree, with rather wide-spreading branches, fine feathery foliage, small inconspicuous yellow flowers and thin shelled pods, brown outside but of a satiny straw colour inside, which when mature twist snake like and split to disclose small, lens-shaped, bright red bead like seeds. |
| Herb Effects |
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Inhibits trypsin and chymotrypsin (seed); emetic (root) |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Stigmasterol and its glucosides and a polysaccharide (seed); stigmasterol, beta-sitosterol, octacosanol and a glucoside (leaf); dulcitol (seed and leaf). |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| 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
,11,12,13,14,15,16,1
7-hexadecahydrocyclo
penta[a]phenanthren-
3-one |
C29H48O |
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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, |
C29H50O |
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| Octacosanol |
67905-27-5 |
Octacosan-1-ol |
C28H58O |
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| Dulcitol |
608-66-2 |
hexane-1,2,3,4,5,6-h
exaol |
C6H14O6 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Curing eye diseases (wood paste) and in rheumatism, gout, haematuria and haematemesis (leaf decoction). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al.,Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
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