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Plant Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Ericaceae)

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Common name(s)
Bearberry, Uva Ursi
How used
Medicinal

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# Activity Chemical Name Part Low PPM High PPM StdDev *Reference
30 (+)-CATECHIN Leaf -- -- -- *
4 (+)-CATECHOL Leaf -- -- -- *
38 (-)-EPICATECHIN Leaf -- -- -- *
0 2,3,6-GALLOYL-D-GLUCOSE Leaf -- -- -- *
0 3-O-BETA-D-GALACTOPYRANOSIDE-3',4',5,7-TETRAHYDROXY-FLAVONE Leaf -- -- -- *
0 3-O-BETA-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE-3',4',5,7-TETRAHYDROXY-FLAVONE Leaf -- -- -- *
0 4-HYDROXYANISOLE Tissue Culture -- -- -- *
12 ALLANTOIN Plant -- -- -- *
12 ALLANTOIN Leaf -- -- -- Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
10 ALPHA-AMYRIN Shoot -- -- -- *
10 ALPHA-AMYRIN Plant -- -- -- J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
10 ALPHA-AMYRIN Leaf -- -- -- *
2 ALPHA-AMYRIN-ACETATE Leaf -- -- -- *
5 ALUMINUM Leaf 83.0 719.0 -0.01 *
15 ARBUTIN Tissue Culture -- 30.0 -- *
15 ARBUTIN Plant 75000.0 107000.0 1.08 *
15 ARBUTIN Leaf 114.3 186000.0 1.99 *
0 ARBUTIN-GALLIC-ACID-ESTER Leaf -- -- -- Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
112 ASCORBIC-ACID Leaf 22.0 191.0 -0.43 *
0 ASH Seed 6000.0 33000.0 -0.45 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
*Unless otherwise noted all references are to Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press.