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Common Names
Cowage; Velvetbean
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Subspecies
utilis
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GENISTEIN | 81 | Leaf Diffusate | not available | 6.0 | -0.49 | Duke, 1992 * |
| HYDROXYGENISTEIN | 0 | Leaf Diffusate | not available | 14.0 | 0.08 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Abortifacient | 1 | Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp. |
| Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiaggregant | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Antiangiogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiatherosclerotic | 1 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 163.1999. |
| Anticancer (Breast) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticarcinomic (Breast) | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Anticlimacteric | 1 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| Antiendoccytotic | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Antiestrogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifertility | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihemolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiimplantation | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiinflammatory | 1 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 179.1999. |
| Antiischemic | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Antileukemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antileukotriene | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Antilymphomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimelanomic | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |