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Cajanus cajan

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 15 constituent measurements for Cajanus cajan. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.

15Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Cajanin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Cajanol	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Cajanus lactone	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Genistein	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Pratensein	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Proanthocyanidins (condensed tannins)	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	0.5 Milligram-equivalent/gram	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Prunetin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 5 Milligram-equivalent/gram	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 8.8 Milligram-equivalent/gram	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	4.54 Percent/100 gram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Coumarins	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Cyanogenic glycosides	Seed	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.7 Milligram/100 gram	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Cyanogenic glycosides	Seed	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.45 Milligram/100 gram	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	5.8 Percent/100 gram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	5.12 Percent/100 gram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Vitti, DMSS., Abdalla, AL., Bueno, ICS., Silva, JC., Costa, C., Bueno, MS., Nozella, EF., Longo, C., Vieira, EQ., Cabral, SLS., Godoy, PB., Mueller-Harvey, I. Do all tannins have similar nutritional effects? A comparison of three Brazilian fodder legumes . Animal feed science and technology, 2005, vol. 119, no. 3-4, p. 345-361. DOI
Gupta, A., Sharma, S., Verma, H.K., Tyagi, D.S., Mishra, P.K., Patra, P.K. Phytochemical characterization of twelve medicinal plants used for sickle cell disease management in chhattisgarh. International journal of pharma and bio sciences, 2015, vol. 6, no. 2, p. B1062-B1070.
Patel, Neeraj K., Bhutani, Kamlesh K. Pinostrobin and Cajanus lactone isolated from Cajanus cajan (L.) leaves inhibits TNF-alpha and IL-1 beta production: In vitro and in vivo experimentation . Phytomedicine, 2014, vol. 21, no. 7, p. 946-953. DOI
Liu, Y.-M., Jiang, B.-P., Shen, S.-N., Guo, Z., Li, Z.-Y., Si, J.-Y., Pan, R.-L. Chemical constituents from leaves of Cajanus cajan. Chinese traditional and herbal drugs, 2014, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 466-470. DOI
Shrivastava, S. K., Bajpai, R. K. A study of some toxic constituents of five new varieties of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L) Mill sp.). Current science, 1982, p. 703-704.

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