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
KUDZUSAPONIN-A-1	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-A-2	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-A-3	0	Root	not available	0.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-A-4	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-A-5	0	Root	not available	0.3	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-C-1	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-SA-1	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-SA-2	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-SA-3	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-SA-4	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUDZUSAPONIN-SB-1	0	Root	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUZUBUTENOLIDE-A	0	Root	not available	1.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPENONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPIWIGHTEONE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Shoot	800.0	850.0	-0.92	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MALVIN	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-ACYL-N-1-GLUCOSYLTRYPTOPHAN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTIFLORIN	0	Leaf	not available	350.0	1.00	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
Choleretic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Cholinergic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
CNS-Depressant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Coronary-Dilator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	3	Fukutake, M., Yokota, S., Kawamura, H., Iizuka, A., Amagaya, S., Fukuda, K., Komatsu, Y. 1998. Inhibitory effect of Coptidis rhizoma adn Scutellariae radix on azoxymethane-induced aberrant crypt foci formation in rat colon. Biol Pharm Bull, 21(8): 814-817
COX-2-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytoprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	5	Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	2	Duke, 1992 *