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
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	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.
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	2	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	4	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	10	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antichoreic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric	5	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.