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
L-THREO-ALPHA-AMINO-BETA-CHLORO-BUTYRIC-ACID	0	Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Seed	0.0	0.5	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
LECITHIN	20	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEGUMIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEGUMINELIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	2280.0	22552.0	3.71	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Seed	3230.0	15279.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Shoot	not available	35.0	-1.17	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	1750.0	7418.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	1520.0	7190.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Fruit	2020.0	19980.0	4.11	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Seed	3170.0	14995.0	0.39	Duke, 1992 *
M-XYLOHYDROQUINONE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	218.0	2591.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	2200.0	3700.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	319.0	1700.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Seed	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
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.