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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Melilotus officinalis (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Yellow Sweetclover
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GALLIC-ACID 62 Shoot *
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Shoot *
HYDROCOUMARIN 0 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
KAEMPFEROL 75 Flower *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
KAEMPFEROL 75 Shoot 12.5 -0.76 *
MEDICARPIN 13 Leaf *
MELILOTIC-ACID 1 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MELILOTIC-ACID 1 Shoot *
MELILOTIC-ACID-ESTER 0 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MELILOTIGENIN 0 Inflorescence 62.5 *
MELILOTIN 1 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
MELILOTOSIDE 0 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
MYRICETIN 34 Flower *
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 Plant Pharmazie, 46: 156, 1991.
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 Shoot *
OLEANOLIC-ACID 64 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant Pharmazie, 46: 156, 1991.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Shoot *
P-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID 0 Shoot *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Pesticide 15 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 4 Planta Medica, 56(6): 671, 1990.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Phytoalexin 1 *
Piscicide 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Proliferant 1 *
Prooxidant 1 *
Prostaglandigenic 4 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 4 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 1 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.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 4 *