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
MALVIDIN-3-RHAMNOSIDE-5-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	not available	85.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	3.0	21.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Seed	0.0	0.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
MESOXALIC-ACID	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Fruit	110.0	1088.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Seed	820.0	3879.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-4-CHLORO-INDOYL-3-ACETATE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEVALONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
MOLYBDENUM	2	Seed	0.1	3.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
MUFA	13	Fruit	210.0	2077.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
MUFA	13	Seed	350.0	1656.0	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *
MYO-INOSITOL	0	Root	not available	100.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MYO-INOSITOL	0	Seed	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	20.0	198.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-BETA-CAROTENE-B	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-BETA-CAROTENE-U	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	6.0	59.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	20.0	105.0	1.86	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Seed	0.2	3.0	-0.34	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.