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

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Vasodilator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	3	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229