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
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Bernard, F. X., Sable, S., Cameron, B., Provost, J., Desnottes, J. F., Crouzet, J., Blanche, F. 1997. Glycosylated Flavones as Selective Inhibitors of Topoisomerase IV. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy, 41: 992-998.
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Vasodilator	5	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *