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
MEDICAGENIC-ACID-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICAGENIC-ACID-3-O-TRIGLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MEDICAGO-GUCURONOXYLAN	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICAGOL	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICAGOL	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICAGOL	3	Shoot	not available	6.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICANINE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICARPIN	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICARPIN	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICARPIN	13	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICARPIN	13	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICARPIN-3-O-GLYCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICARPIN-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	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.
MEDICOSIDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICOSIDE-A	0	Root	not available	48.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICOSIDE-C	0	Root	20.0	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICOSIDE-D	0	Root	not available	6060.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICOSIDE-G	0	Root	0.0	132.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICOSIDE-H	0	Root	not available	51.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEDICOSIDE-I	0	Root	not available	231.2	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
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nodulation-Signal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Odontolytic	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	9	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osmoregulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Oxytocic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P21-Inducer	2	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	3	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Pectinolytic	1	Martindale's 29th
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic	2	Duke, 1992 *