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
NOR-SPERMIDINE	0	Shoot	not available	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NOR-SPERMINE	0	Shoot	not available	98.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSANOL	6	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.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ONONIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	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.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	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.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Plant	2.0	18.0	-0.69	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PECTIN	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN-METHYL-ESTERASE	0	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.
PECTINASE	1	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.
PENTANAL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEROXIDASE	0	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.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	11	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	10	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	11	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	1	Merck 11th Edition
Insulin-Sparing	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *