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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Medicago sativa (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Alfalfa; Lucerne
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
Subspecies
sativa
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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
PHAEOPHORBIDE-A 0 Plant Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
PHENYLALANINE 7 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 282.0 1500.0 -1.00 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHYTOFLUENE 0 Leaf *
PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ 0 Seed *
PINITOL 5 Shoot *
PIPECOLATE-BETAINE 0 Leaf *
PLASTOCYANINS 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
POPULNIN 0 Leaf *
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 2256.0 12000.0 -0.68 *
PROLINE-BETAINE 0 Leaf *
PROPANAL 0 Plant *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 60000.0 347000.0 1.35 *
PROTEIN 0 Plant 37412.0 199000.0 0.21 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 332000.0 385000.0 1.35 *
PROTEIN 0 Shoot *
PURINES 0 Seed *
PYRIDOXINE 43 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PYRO-GLU-TYR-PRO 0 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiprostaglandin 4 *
Antiprostanoid 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 3 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 6 *
Antipsoriac 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antipyretic 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradiation 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiradicular 14 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 *
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinopathic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiretinotic 2 *
Antirheumatic 9 *
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 2 *
Antirhinoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 197.
Antisalmonella 1 *