Plant Pisum sativum (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pea

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
CAMPESTEROL	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	75600.0	747774.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	296000.0	506000.0	-1.07	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	144600.0	684000.0	0.64	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Seed	74000.0	96000.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE	7	Seed	200.0	590.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Fruit	not available	2060.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Root	not available	61.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	1970.0	2800.0	1.06	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Shoot	not available	121.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Seed	0.0	0.2	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-SINAPIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Plant	not available	0.2	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Seed	0.0	0.2	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	2.0	10.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
COUMESTROL	13	Fruit	not available	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COUMESTROL	13	Seed	not available	0.6	-0.49	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
Anxiolytic	8	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	3	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	1	Martindale's 28th
Atherogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bronchoconstrictor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchostimulant	1	Martindale's 28th
Bruchifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bruchiphobe	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	5	Duke, 1992 *