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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TANNIN 35 Hay 27000.0 28000.0 *
THIAMIN 31 Plant 1.3 7.5 -0.01 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMINE 0 Plant 0.4 1.9 -0.47 *
THREONINE 4 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
TIN 4 Plant *
TRANS-CINNAMIC-ACID 0 Tissue Culture *
TRANS-COUMARIC-ACID 0 Tissue Culture *
TRIACONTAN-1-OL 1 Shoot *
TRIACONTANE 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
TRIACONTANOL 3 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TRICIN 9 Fruit Juice 2200.0 *
TRICIN 9 Plant *
TRICIN 9 Shoot 24.4 *
TRICIN-7-DIGLUCURONIDE 0 Plant *
TRICIN-7-GLUCURONIDE 0 Plant *
TRICIN-7-TRIGLUCURONIDE 0 Plant *
TRIFOLIOL 0 Leaf *
TRIFOLIOL 0 Plant *
TRIFOLIOL 0 Shoot 20.0 *
TRIGALACTOSYL-DIGLYCERIDE 0 Leaf 58.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 7 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lactagogue 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-91.
Larvicide 1 *
Larvistat 2 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative 6 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 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
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipase-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 2 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Lipotropic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 10 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 2 *
Litholytic 2 Martindale's 29th
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lupus-Generating 1 Merck 11th Edition