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
TECTORIGENIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-4-(BUT-CIS-2-ENYLIDENE)-3,5,5-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEX-2-EN-1-ONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	230.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-4-(BUT-TRANS-2-ENYLIDENE)-3,5,5-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEX-2-EN-1-ONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TUBEROSIN	5	Leaf Diffusate	not available	106.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TUBEROSIN	5	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Root	not available	686000.0	-0.54	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
WIGHTEONE	2	Leaf Diffusate	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
Antiulcer?	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaricose	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivasoconstrictive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiwithdrawal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	5	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Astringent	1	Merck 11th Edition
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	3	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.