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
XANTHOPHYLLS	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.
XYLOSE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZANHIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN	5	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN	5	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.
ZEINOXANTHIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZETA-CAROTENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	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
Antifibrositic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	4	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *