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
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Root	14000.0	44600.0	-0.66	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BAICALEIN	50	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOCHANIN-A	32	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOCHANIN-A	32	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOCHANIN-A-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	150.0	475.0	-0.76	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM	28	Shoot	1600.0	1700.0	-0.95	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CANTONIENSISTRIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPROIC-ACID	1	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	271000.0	885350.0	0.71	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CAROTENE	0	Shoot	not available	44.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHOLINE	20	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-4-(BUT-CIS-2-ENYLIDENE)-3,5,5-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEX-2-EN-1-ONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	290.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Immunostimulant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	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.
Laxative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Lipase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Lipotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.