Database on medicinal plants used in ayurveda - AYUSH Research ...

carnegine, la(R)-(–)-calycotomine, (+) laudanosine (Czarnocki and Maclean,
1986), meconic, lactic, malic, tartaric, citric, acetic, succinic, sulphuric,
phosphoric, proteins, free amino acids, pectin, meconin, meconoisin, opionin,
protease, oxydases, maltase, invertase, urease, emulsin (Annette and Bose,
1921-23), (S)-N-methylcoclaurine-3'-hydroxylase, berberine bridge enzyme,
codeinone reductase (Alcantara et al., 2005), phospholipase D (Oblozinsky et
al., 2005), Sanguinarine, (S)-norcoclaurine-6-O-methyltransferase, (S)-3'hydroxy-N-methylcoclaurine-4'-O-methyltransferase,
and (S)-coclaurine Nmethyltransferase
(Facchini and Park, 2003), phosphatidylcholine and
phosphatidyl-p-nitrophenol (Oblozinsky et al., 2003), norcoclaurine
(Samanani and Facchini, 2001), acyltransferase [hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA:
tyramine N-(hydroxycinnamoyl) transferase (Yu and Facchini, 1999).
Seed: Cystine, lysine, histidine, arginine, aspartic acid, serine, glutamic acid,
valine, isoleucine, proteins (Bhown et al., 1965), isoboldine, stigmasterol,
�-sitosterol, nonacosanol, cyclolaudenol, cycloartenol, cycloartenone,
cyclolaudenone and esters of cyclolaudenol and cycloartenol, narcotine and
popavarine (Ramanathan and Chandra, 1981), bismorphine A and B
(Morimoto et al., 2003), morphine-N-oxide and codeine-N-oxide, (Chatterjee
and Pakrashi, 1994), papaverine (Pi et al., 2005), 1,2-dehydroreticuline
(Hirata et al., 2004), codeine, morphine, narcotine (noscapine), papaverine,
thebaine (Paul et al., 1996).
Seed oil: 1-pentanol, 1-hexanal, 1-hexanol, 2-pentylfuran, caproic acid (Krist
et al., 2005), triglyceride composition (Sengupta and Mazumder, 1976).
Tissue: Morphine, tetrahydrobenzylisoquinoline, benzo (c) phenanthridine
and phthalideisoquinoline (tissues of Tasmanian P. somniferum L.) (Frick et
al., 2005).
Root: Thebain (Joachim et al., 1981), sanguinarine/10-hydroxysanguinarine
and dihydrosanguinarine/10-hydroxydihydrosanguinarine, narcotoline,
annoscapine (Frick et al., 2005).
Flowers: Kaempferol, quercetin (Baleaeva and Evdokimovs, 2004).
PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES
The plant is found to have anticonvulsant, analgesic (Calixto et al., 2001;
Serranillos-Gomez et al., 1998; Royer, 1978), antitissuve, cardiovascular,
synergistic, antinociceptive (Aceto et al., 1999), anorectic, locomotor,
hypotensive, sedative, antispasmodic (Shrivastava, 2004), hydrolytic
(Oblozinsky et al., 2003), antitumour (Singh et al., 1990), hypoglycaemic,
carcinogenesis protective (Aruna and Sivramkrishnan, 1992) and
antidiarrhoeal activities.
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