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
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Antiherpetic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 198.
Antihistaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	1	Kashiwada, Y., et. al. 1998. Anti-AIDS Agents. 30. Anti-HIV Activity of Oleanolic Acid, Pomolic Acid, and Structurally Related Triterpenoids. J. Nat. Prod., 61 (9): 1090-1095.
Antihyperglycemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinflammatory	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinsomniac	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antileukemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiLyme	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	3	Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary*, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.