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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Agathosma betulina (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Buchu; Honey Buchu; Mountain Buchu
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-4-HYDROXYMENTHONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
(+)-8-HYDROXYMENTHONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
(+)-ISOPULEGONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
(+)-LIMONENE 0 Leaf 1500.0 2500.0 0.71 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
(+)-LIMONENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
(+)-LINALOOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
(+)-MENTHONE 0 Leaf 1350.0 2250.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
(+)-MENTHONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
(+)-PULEGONE 4 Leaf 1500.0 3000.0 -0.15 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
(-)-ISOMENTHONE 0 Leaf 5250.0 8750.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
(-)-ISOMENTHONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
(-)-ISOPULEGONE 0 Leaf 450.0 900.0 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
(-)-ISOPULEGONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
(-)-PULEGONE 0 Leaf 1650.0 2750.0 -0.71 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
(-)-PULEGONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
1,8-CINEOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
1-4-CINEOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
2-EPI-P-MENTHANE-8-THIOL-1-ONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
3-METHYL-CYCLOHEXANONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
4-ACETOXY-ISOMENTHONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive 18 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 9 Economou, D., and Nahrstedt, A. 1991. Chemical, Physiological, and Toxicological Aspects of the Essential Oil of Some Species of the Genus Bystropogon*. Planta Medica, 57: 347, 1991.
Candidistat 2 *
Capillariprotective 3 Martindale's 29th
Carcinogenic 2 *
Carcinogenic? 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiodepressant 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Cardiomyopathogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective 7 *
Cardiotonic 1 *
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Carminative 3 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Catabolic 3 *
Cerebrotoxic 2 J. Aromatherapy 4: 24.
Chemopreventive 5 *
Choleretic 4 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Cicatrizant 1 *
Ciliotoxic 1 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.