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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	0.1	394.0	0.58	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	28.0	149.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE-5,6-EPOXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CRYPTOXANTHIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-MANNANASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Fruit	not available	5.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SPINASTEROL	0	Fruit	not available	19.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SPINASTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOCHANIN-A	32	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOCHANIN-A	32	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOCHANIN-A	32	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOTIN	4	Plant	not available	0.2	-1.00	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BORON	4	Leaf	not available	25.0	-0.99	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Musculotropic	4	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Myocardiotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NADH-Ubiquinone-Oxidoreductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Narcotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Natriuretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	8	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nematistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective	4	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *