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
Energizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Epidermal-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
ER-Beta-Binder	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	9	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist	3	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic	13	Duke, 1992 *
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	2	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
Flatulent	2	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	10	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	30	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.