Plant Trifolium pratense (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Red Clover; Purple Clover; Peavine Clover; Cowgrass

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
ACETOIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOPHENONE	6	Flower	not available	41.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOPHENONE	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AFROMORSIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AFROMORSIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AFROMORSIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE--6''-O-MALONATE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIN	12	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KETO-GLUTARIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Inflorescence	126.0	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Flower	25.0	137.0	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
ARACHIDONIC-ACID	12	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Flower	534.0	2966.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Flower	8100.0	45000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	41000.0	-0.21	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
ASH	0	Shoot	not available	79000.0	-0.55	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
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diagnostic	1	Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	14	Duke, 1992 *
DME-Inhibitor	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Binder	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
DOPA-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	2	Merck 11th Edition
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	5	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.