“…Previous phytochemical investigations on D. triflorum have been able to isolate astragalin, cosmossiin, tectorigenin (Ogbeide and Parvez, 1992), 2 -O-glucosylvitexin (Adinarayana and Syamasundar, 1982), 2-O-β-xylosylvitexin (Sreenivasan and Sankarasubramanian, 1984), vitexin, genistin, aliphatic alcohols, aliphatic acids, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, campesterol, stigmasterol, β-sitosterol, campesterol-3-O-β-D-glucose, stigmasterol-3-O-β-D-glucose, sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucose and (+)-pinitol (Chio and Huang, 1995). Alkaloids such as hypaphorine, N,N-dimethyltryptophan, betaine, choline, β-phenethylamine, and N,N-dimethyltryptamine oxide have also been isolated from D. trflorum (Ghosal et al, 1971). In mainland China, three plants in the Desmodium genus (D. styracifolium, D. trifolium, D. gangeticum) were studied for their affects on cigarette smoke, free radicals and their inhibitory rates on lipid peroxidation (Mao et al, 2007).…”