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

Common Names

Pea

How this plant is used

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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
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	370.0	1750.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE	11	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE	11	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	990.0	9792.0	3.06	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Seed	1130.0	5345.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	2730.0	27003.0	4.65	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Seed	2350.0	11116.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Shoot	not available	33.0	-1.34	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VERBASCOSE	1	Seed	not available	31000.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
VICILIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	1.6	16.0	1.31	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Seed	1.6	8.6	1.55	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B12	0	Seed	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	880000.0	897750.0	0.55	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	760000.0	793670.0	2.17	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XENOGNOSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	11.0	60.0	0.42	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
Dopaminergic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Dye	2	Merck 11th Edition
Emetic	2	Martindale's 29th
Emmenagogue	1	Wealth of India.
Emollient	1	Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Epidermal-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	3	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.