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

Common Names

Buchu; Honey Buchu; Mountain Buchu

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
L-MENTHONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LIMONENE	60	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	not available	2210.0	-0.74	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MANGANESE	14	Leaf	not available	675.0	0.66	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MENTHOFURAN	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOL	63	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOL-ACETATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHONE	30	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MYRCENE	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTANOL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTANOL-ACETATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENOL	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENYL-ACETATE	1	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOISOPULEGOLE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOMENTHOL	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL-ACETATE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL-ACETONE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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	Duke, 1992 *
Capillariprotective	3	Martindale's 29th
Carcinogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Cerebrotoxic	2	J. Aromatherapy 4: 24.
Chemopreventive	5	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
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.