Plant Pueraria montana (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Kudzu; Kudsu

How this plant is used

Food

Subspecies

var. lobata

Subspecies Author

(WILLD.) MAESEN & S. M. ALMEIDA

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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
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Shoot	not available	8.0	-1.02	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ROBININ	10	Leaf	500.0	18700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPARONE	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SHEKANIN	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICA	0	Shoot	15000.0	52000.0	0.19	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SISSITORIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOPHORADIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-A	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-B	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPONIN-A-3	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPONIN-I	0	Root	not available	1.5	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPONIN-SA-3	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Root	130000.0	400000.0	0.35	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIZOLAMINE	0	Seed	not available	2.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TECTORIDIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TECTORIGENIN	5	Flower	not available	70.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
12-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
ABeta-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	2	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Additive	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	9	Kohda, H., Tanaka, S., Yamaoka, Y., Yahara, S., Nohara, T., Tanimoto, T., Tanaka, A. 1989. Studies on Lens-Aldose-Reductase Inhibitor in Medicinal Plants.II Active Constituents of Monochasma savatierii FRANCH, et MAXIM. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 37(11):3153-3154
Allelochemic	2	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allergenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Amylase-Inhibitor	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	4	Merck 11th Edition