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
SERINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Flower	0.2	1.2	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
SISSOTRIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SISSOTRIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SISSOTRIN	0	Root	not available	29.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SISSOTRIN	0	Stem	not available	6.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SLAFRAMINE	4	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
SODIUM	1	Flower	29.0	160.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-B	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-C	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-D	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-E	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOL-F	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOYASAPOGENOLS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
SOYASAPONIN-I	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS	0	Flower	21600.0	120000.0	0.82	Duke, 1992 *
TETRADECAN-1-AL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TETRADECANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	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
Neurotoxic	2	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	6	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ovicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
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.
Oxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	2	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.