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

Common Names
Cowpea; Black-eyed Pea; Crowder Pea; Southern Pea
How this plant is used
Food
Subspecies
unguiculata
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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
(-)-PHASEOLLIDIN 0 Plant *
(-)-PHASEOLLIN 0 Plant *
2'-O-METHYLPHASEOLLIDINISOFLAVAN 0 Stem *
3-ACETYLOLEANOLIC-ACID 0 Seed 19.0 Noorwala, M., Mohammad, F. V., Ahmad, V. U. 1995. A New Monodesmosidic Triterpenoid Saponin From the Seeds of Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata. J Nat Prod, 58(7): 1070-1074.
3-O-ACETYLOLEANOLIC-ACID 1 Seed Noorwala, M., Mohammad, F. V., Ahmad, V. U. 1995. A New Monodesmosidic Triterpenoid Saponin From the Seeds of Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata. J Nat Prod, 58(7): 1070-1074.
ALANINE 3 Seed 9830.0 12175.0 0.43 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Seed 1390.0 4187.0 -0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Shoot 440.0 4305.0 0.71 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALUMINUM 5 Seed 6.0 840.0 1.03 *
AMYLOSE 0 Seed 108420.0 111200.0 -0.71 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ANTIMONY 0 Seed 0.0 0.0 -1.09 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed 86.0 -0.65 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ARGININE 14 Seed 2070.0 18500.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 15.0 75.0 -0.29 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Shoot 360.0 3523.0 -0.20 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH 0 Seed 16000.0 120000.0 2.17 *
ASH 0 Shoot 10500.0 102740.0 0.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 25730.0 32254.0 0.86 *
BARIUM 0 Seed 1.0 60.0 -0.18 *
BEHENIC-ACID 1 Seed 380.0 -0.64 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Copper-Antagonist 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
Coronary-Dilator 1 *
Cosmetic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytotoxic 2 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Demulcent 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
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 2 *
Detoxicant 1 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diuretic 6 *
DOPA-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Emetic 1 Martindale's 29th
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.