Plant Crotalaria juncea (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sunhemp

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ASH	0	Seed	not available	33000.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Stem	not available	800100.0	1.20	Duke, 1992 *
DL-BETA-HYDROXY-N-METHYL-NORVALINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	43000.0	-1.17	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	not available	81000.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN	81	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JUNCEIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Stem	not available	64100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	346000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
RIDDELLIINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SENECIONINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SENECIPHYLLINE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Seed	not available	411000.0	0.41	Duke, 1992 *
TRICHODESMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	not available	86000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Abortifacient	2	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antiangiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 163.1999.
Antibacterial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticlimacteric	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antidiabetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antidote (Iodine)	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiendoccytotic	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	1	Duke, 1992 *