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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Vigna unguiculata (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Pea Bean; Asparagus Bean; Yardlong Bean
How this plant is used
Food
Subspecies
sesquipedalis
Subspecies Author
(L.) VERDC.
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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
ERUCIC-ACID 2 Fruit 130.0 1070.0 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ERUCIC-ACID 2 Seed 120.0 753.0 -0.81 *
ERUCIC-ACID 2 Shoot 80.0 783.0 *
EUROPIUM 0 Seed 0.0 0.0 -0.98 *
FAT 0 Fruit 4000.0 32922.0 -0.39 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FAT 0 Seed 13100.0 14306.0 -1.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FAT 0 Shoot 2500.0 24462.0 -0.42 *
FIBER 15 Seed 47700.0 52090.0 -0.65 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FIBER 15 Shoot 13000.0 127202.0 -0.57 *
FOLACIN 15 Fruit 8.9 2.80 *
FOLACIN 15 Seed 6.5 7.2 1.90 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GALACTOSYL-ONONITOL 0 Seed Yasui, T., Ohno, S. 1982. Distribution of Galactosyl Ononitol and Ononitol in Angiospermae. Nippon Nogeikagaku Kaishi, 56: 1053-1056.
GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATASE 0 Seed *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Seed 43190.0 0.06 *
GLYCEROPHOSPHATASE 0 Leaf *
GLYCINE 12 Seed 8550.0 -0.35 *
HISTIDINE 7 Fruit 900.0 7407.0 3.99 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HISTIDINE 7 Seed 7550.0 8245.0 0.56 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
IRON 6 Fruit 1.0 69.0 -0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
IRON 6 Seed 86.0 94.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nematicide 3 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nephrotoxic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroexcitant 1 Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective 1 *
Neurotoxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter 1 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 2 *
NO-Genic 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovulant 1 *
Oxidant 2 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Pancreatoxic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 2 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.
Perfumery 3 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 9 *
Phagocytotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *