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
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemostat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	5	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypoglycemic	1	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insecticide	2	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	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
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Larvistat	1	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 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.