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Plant Phaseolus lunatus (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Butter Bean; Lima Bean
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
COUMESTROL 13 Leaf not available 1200.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
COUMESTROL 13 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COUMESTROL 13 Seed 0.0 not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYCLO-2,3-DEHYDROKIEVITONE-HYDRATE 2 Leaf not available 2100.0 not available 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 not available 500.0 not available 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 Duke, 1992 *
DALBERGIODIN 3 Leaf Diffusate not available 12.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Fruit not available 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 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Sprout Seedling 2900.0 22000.0 -0.62 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Fruit not available 175000.0 0.31 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Leaf not available 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 Duke, 1992 *
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 not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN 81 Leaf not available 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 not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN 81 Seed 0.0 40.1 -0.30 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
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hepatoprotective 4 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 253.
Hepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Histidine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 15 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 6 Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 10 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotriglyceridemic 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
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant 1 Martindale's 29th