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
DAIDZEIN	32	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAIDZEIN	32	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAIDZEN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
DAPHNORETIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDRO-SOYASAPONIN-I	0	Shoot	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Seed	not available	1000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
EREPSIN	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.
ESCULETIN	30	Fruit	not available	140.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESCULETIN	30	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
FAT	0	Plant	8084.0	43000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	101000.0	123000.0	-0.75	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FERREDOXINS	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.
FERULIC-ACID	61	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Plant	31000.0	423000.0	1.48	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	81000.0	91732.0	-0.34	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Plant	not available	210000.0	1.96	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Plant	not available	423000.0	0.64	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVOXANTHIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	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
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	4	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	1	Meckes, M., Calzada, F., Tapia-Contreras, A., Cedillo-Rivera, R. 1999. Antiprotozoal Properties of Helianthemum glomeratum. Phytotherapy Research, 13(2): 102-105.
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Pyrogenic	1	Conradson, T. B. G., Dixon, C. M. S., Clarke, B., Barnes, P. J. 1987. Cardiovascular Effects of Infused Adenosine in Man: Potentiation by Dipyridamole. Acta Physiol Scand, 129(3): 387-391.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	9	Duke, 1992 *
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Respirastimulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Retinoprotectant Optometry	1	Duke, 1992 *
Secretomotor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	9	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Serotoninergic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).