- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Leguminosae, (Papilionaceae)
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- Levant
- Europe (including Great Britain)
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- Constituent(s)
- plant
- seed: lupinine
- oxylupamine
- lupinidine (these alkaloids especially in the seeds)
- -The plant contains also malic acid
- citric acid
- oxalic acid
- oil
- wax
- galactane; seed: albumen consisting of conglutin and luzanine
- pupulidinol
- luzinine
- Action
- seed: anthelmintic
- diuretic
- depurative
- emmenagogue
- pectoral
- nutritive (boiling is said to destroy the toxicity); root: discutient
- digestive
- - All parts of the plant are toxic.
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