Plant Medicago sativa (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Alfalfa; Lucerne

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

Subspecies

sativa

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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
FOLIC-ACID	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN	16	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN	16	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN	16	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN	16	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN-7-O-(6''-O-MALONYL-GLUCOSIDE)	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GALACTOMANNAN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GENISTEIN	81	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN	81	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN	81	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GLUCURONIC-ACID	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GLYCINE-BETAINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUANINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUANOSINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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
Antiaflatoxin	4	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	2	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
Antiaggregant	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antialkalotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	8	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialopecic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	6	Martindale's 28th
Antianginal	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiangiogenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th