Plant Mucuna pruriens (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cowage; Velvetbean

How this plant is used

Food

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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
MUCUNADINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCUNAIN	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCUNINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	15.0	125.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
N,N-DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N,N-DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE-N-OXIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	17.0	34.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINE	21	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	735.0	11400.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	1365.0	33830.0	0.00	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed	35.0	630.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYALANINE	0	Seed	7500.0	15900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	3200.0	4700.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Seed	9225.0	19555.0	1.61	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	155000.0	331000.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
PRURIENIDINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRURIENINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Seed	1.1	2.7	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Seed	not available	21000.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
SD	0	Plant	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
Antiperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiphenylketonuric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiphotophobic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiPMS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antipoliomyelitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipredatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antipsoriac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiradicular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiRaynaud's	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antireserpine	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Antiretardation	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.