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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 3067.0 43200.0 2.69 *
POTASSIUM 14 Shoot 4550.0 44520.0 1.45 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROLINE 0 Seed 14050.0 0.53 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 90000.0 283800.0 0.44 *
PROTEIN 0 Shoot 41000.0 401174.0 1.71 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PUFA 4 Seed 3380.0 10181.0 -0.73 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PUFA 4 Shoot 1060.0 10372.0 -0.71 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PYROPHOSPHATASE 0 Leaf ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RAFFINOSE 1 Seed 4000.0 -0.52 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed 1.5 4.5 0.37 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Shoot 1.8 17.0 -0.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RUBIDIUM 0 Seed 13.0 39.0 1.87 *
SALICYLATES 7 Seed 0.0 -0.34 *
SCANDIUM 0 Seed 0.0 0.0 0.03 *
SECOISOLARICIRESINOL 3 Seed 0.0 -0.71 H. Adlercreutz, pers. comm.
SELENIUM 60 Seed 0.0 0.1 -0.26 *
SERINE 1 Seed 12030.0 0.28 *
SFA 0 Seed 2100.0 6325.0 -0.52 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Shoot 660.0 6458.0 0.71 *
SILVER 3 Seed 0.0 0.0 -0.75 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nematicide 5 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nematistat 1 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 2 *
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
Peroxidase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide 14 *