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

Common Names

Yellow Sweetclover

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
P-HYDROXYPHENYLLACTIC-ACID	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	128000.0	416000.0	1.62	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTOCATECHUALDEHYDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pharmazie, 46: 156, 1991.
PROTOCATECHUALDEHYDE	1	Shoot	not available	50.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pharmazie, 46: 156, 1991.
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPOGENINS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
SAPONINS	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
SINAPIC-ACID	9	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-B	0	Shoot	not available	250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-E	0	Shoot	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPONIN-I	0	Root	not available	200.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Shoot	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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	7	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	3	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic	5	Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergenic	2	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic	4	Duke, 1992 *