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Plant Macroptylium lathyroides

How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GENISTEIN 81 Leaf Diffusate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYGENISTEIN 0 Leaf Diffusate not available 3.0 -1.11 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Abortifacient 1 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.
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antiangiogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 163.1999.
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.
Antiendoccytotic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antiestrogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiimplantation 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 179.1999.
Antiischemic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antileukemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antilymphomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)