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CCassia fistula , Cassia tora , Cassia occidentalis , Cassia auriculata, Cassia alta, Castanospermum australe, Centaurea corcubionensis , Centaurea aspera Chelidonium majus Cressa cretica , Croton cajucara , Cucumis sativus , Cuminum cyminum , Curcuma longa , Cyclocarya paliurus,Cuminum nigrum

Cressa cretica

Taxonomy:

Kingdom : Plantae

Division : Magnoliophyta

Class : Magnoliopsida

Order : Solanales

, Family : Conyolyulaceae

Genus : cressa

Chemical Constituents:

N-octocosanol, β – sitosterol,umbelliferonone, scopoletin, isopimpinellin, β-sitosterol D(+), glucoside and quercetin ,syringaresinol-beta-D-glucoside,oil present varied from 22% to 25%, oil present varied from 22% to 25%, 12 unsaturated fatty acids and four saturated fatty acids. The ash content also ranged from 2%–39%, quercetin-3-O-glucoside , kampferol-3-O-glucoside , kampferol-3-O-rhamnoglucoside , and rutin .crasstetriacontanoic acid (29-oxotetriacontanoic acid)

Part used : Whole plant

Reference:

Chemical constituents:

Isolation and NMR spectra of syringaresinol-beta-D-glucoside from Cressa cretica.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15567262

Anti-hyperglycemic activity:

Novel weight-reducing activity of Galega officinalis in mice.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10632090