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
NICOTINAMIDE	2	Sprout Seedling	not available	0.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID	11	Seed	not available	18.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID	11	Sprout Seedling	not available	18.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Seed	11000.0	50000.0	2.15	Duke, 1992 *
O-ACETYL-HOMOSERINE	0	Shoot	not available	433.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID	4	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSTYRENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	210.0	2077.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	350.0	1656.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
ONONITOL	0	Root	not available	3.2	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Fruit	not available	60.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PAEONIDIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	330.0	3264.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	640.0	3027.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	7.5	74.0	3.57	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Seed	1.0	5.0	-1.23	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
Radioprotective	1	Martindale's 28th
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Retinoprotectant Optometry	1	Duke, 1992 *
Roborant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Scabicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue	3	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	5	Duke, 1992 *
Serotoninergic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue	1	Martindale's 29th
Soap	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sunscreen	4	Jim Duke's personal files.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Suppurative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sympathomimetic	1	Duke, 1992 *