Plant Tephrosia purpurea (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Purple Tephrosia; Wild Indigo

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
ASH	0	Leaf	77000.0	99600.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Plant	not available	30.0	-0.64	Jim Duke's personal files.
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	not available	16500.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	654000.0	748000.0	1.08	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	24000.0	27000.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	91000.0	-0.92	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	279000.0	280000.0	1.46	Duke, 1992 *
ISOTEPHROSIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	not available	10300.0	2.38	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Leaf	not available	72500.0	1.44	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	2600.0	5200.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Leaf	not available	33800.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	147000.0	244000.0	0.32	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	358000.0	1.10	Duke, 1992 *
ROTENOIDS	0	Leaf	6500.0	8000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ROTENOIDS	0	Root	7000.0	9500.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ROTENOIDS	0	Seed	16000.0	18000.0	1.09	Duke, 1992 *
ROTENOIDS	0	Stem	4000.0	6500.0	-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
Antiarrhythmic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiasthmatic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	3	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinomic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticataract	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticephalagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	2	Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
Anticoronary	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
AntiCVI	1	Duke, 1992 *