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

Common Names
Butter Bean; Lima Bean
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
COUMESTROL 13 Leaf 1200.0 1.00 *
COUMESTROL 13 Root *
COUMESTROL 13 Seed 0.0 *
CYCLO-2,3-DEHYDROKIEVITONE-HYDRATE 2 Leaf 2100.0 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
CYCLOKIEVITONE-HYDRATE 2 Leaf 500.0 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
CYSTINE 2 Seed 830.0 2789.0 -0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
DAIDZEIN 32 Seed 0.3 28.0 -0.39 *
DALBERGIODIN 3 Leaf Diffusate 12.0 1.00 *
FAT 0 Fruit 6000.0 -0.60 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT 0 Leaf 0.0 48000.0 -0.17 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT 0 Seed 1000.0 28898.0 -1.25 *
FAT 0 Sprout Seedling 2900.0 22000.0 -0.62 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 175000.0 0.31 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Leaf 111000.0 -0.62 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Seed 10000.0 84500.0 -0.40 *
FIBER 15 Sprout Seedling 6000.0 17000.0 -1.40 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GARBANZOL 0 Shoot *
GENISTEIN 81 Leaf 2300.0 -0.58 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
GENISTEIN 81 Leaf Diffusate *
GENISTEIN 81 Seed 0.0 40.1 -0.30 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Catechol-O-Methyltransferase-Inhibitor 2 *
Chelator 1 *
Chemopreventive 1 *
Choleretic 2 *
Cholinergic 1 *
Circulotonic 1 *
CNS-Depressant 1 Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic 2 *
Colorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic 1 *
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Coronary-Dilator 1 *
Cosmetic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cyanogenic 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.
Cytotoxic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th