Plant Melilotus indica (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Small-Flowered Melilot

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
ASH	0	Plant	85000.0	131000.0	0.18	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	not available	13400.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
CAO	0	Plant	not available	24900.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	643000.0	699000.0	0.17	Duke, 1992 *
CELLOBIOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	17000.0	19000.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Plant	149000.0	294000.0	0.53	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
K2O	0	Plant	not available	15300.0	0.74	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Plant	not available	33600.0	0.84	Duke, 1992 *
P2O5	0	Plant	not available	4900.0	0.44	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	not available	3500.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	153000.0	253000.0	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SORBOSE	0	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
Hypotensive	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Laxative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Pesticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Sweetener	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tranquilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	2	Duke, 1992 *