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
Antitubercular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (GI)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Kidney)	2	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Mouth)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Pancreas)	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antitumor (Prostate)	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Skin)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	6	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Antitympanitic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiulcer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *