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
ROTENONE	13	Root	not available	7000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICA	0	Leaf	not available	21900.0	0.44	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	not available	8700.0	0.90	Duke, 1992 *
TEPHROSIN	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mutagenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pediculicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Pesticide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Dunstan, C. A., Liu, B., Welch, C. J., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Alphitol, a Phenolic Substance from Alphitonia zizyphoides which Inhibits Prostaglandin Biosynthesis in vitro. Phytochemistry, 48(3): 495-497.
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pulicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Scabicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Sunscreen	1	Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *