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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Vigna radiata (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Green Gram; Mungbean
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
VALINE 3 Seed 12370.0 13600.0 0.20 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE 3 Sprout Seedling 1300.0 13655.0 -0.67 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VERBASCOSE 1 Seed 38000.0 0.81 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
VIT-B-6 0 Seed 3.7 4.3 -0.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VIT-B-6 0 Sprout Seedling 0.8 11.0 1.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VIT-B12 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
WATER 0 Seed 86100.0 94890.0 -0.51 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER 0 Sprout Seedling 888140.0 0.76 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
XYLOSE 3 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ZINC 77 Seed 26.0 31.0 -0.40 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ZINC 77 Sprout Seedling 3.5 48.0 0.49 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihepatitic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatomic 1 *
Antihepatotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 8 *
Antiherpetic? 1 *
Antihiccup 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic 6 *
AntiHIV 3 *
Antihomocysteine 1 *
Antihomocystinuric 2 Martindale's 29th
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperkeratotic 1 *
Antihyperkinetic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 10 *
Antihyperventilation 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.