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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
DAIDZEIN 32 Plant *
DAIDZEIN 32 Shoot *
DAIDZEN 4 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
DAPHNORETIN 2 Plant *
DEHYDRO-SOYASAPONIN-I 0 Shoot 20.0 *
DIOSGENIN 7 Seed 1000.0 -0.71 *
EREPSIN 0 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ESCULETIN 30 Fruit 140.0 *
ESCULETIN 30 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
FAT 0 Plant 8084.0 43000.0 -0.13 *
FAT 0 Seed 101000.0 123000.0 -0.75 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FERREDOXINS 0 Plant 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 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Tissue Culture *
FIBER 15 Plant 31000.0 423000.0 1.48 *
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 210000.0 1.96 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Plant 423000.0 0.64 *
FLAVOXANTHIN 0 Leaf *
FOLACIN 15 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Sialogogue 1 Martindale's 29th
Soap 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spermicide 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Spermigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Stimulant 1 *
Sunscreen 5 *
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Systolic-Depressant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Taenicide 1 Martindale's 28th
Teratologic 2 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thermogenic 1 *
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Tineacide 1 Martindale's 29th
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor 1 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 3 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 8 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 7 *
Topoisomerase-II-Poison 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999.