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

Common Names

Chinese Kudzu

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
ACETYL-CHOLINE	19	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIN	12	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Root	not available	0.3	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	5330.0	8300.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Root	12.0	13.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
D-MANNITOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAIDZEIN	32	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAIDZIN	10	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMONONETIN	16	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN	81	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
IRON	6	Root	50.0	68.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
KAKKONEIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	1470.0	3690.0	0.60	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	3.0	5.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Root	not available	0.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
MIROESTROL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Root	7370.0	11200.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
PUERARIN	49	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUERARIN-7-XYLOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUERAROL	0	Root	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
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
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Additive	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	1	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	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiacne	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiaddictive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadrenergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	3	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	5	Duke, 1992 *