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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
NIACIN 39 Leaf 42.0 -0.68 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
P-CYMEN-8-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-CYMOL 0 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-MENTH-1-EN-9-AL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-MENTH-1-EN-9-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-MENTH-1-EN-9-YL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-MENTH-4(8)-EN-7-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-MENTH-8-EN-7-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-MENTHA-1,3,6-TRIENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-MENTHA-1,8-DIEN-10-AL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-MENTHA-1,8-DIEN-10-OL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
P-MENTHAN-3-ON-8-THIOL 0 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
P-MENTHANE-8-THIOL-1-ONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
P-MENTHANE-8-THIOL-3-ONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL 6 Leaf Essent. Oil *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 6780.0 0.33 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PINOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
PIPERITENONE 3 Leaf Essent. Oil *
PIPERITONE 7 Leaf Essent. Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Circulotonic 1 *
CNS-Depressant 4 *
CNS-Stimulant 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
CNS-Toxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Coleoptophile 1 *
Collagenic 2 *
COMT-Inhibitor 2 *
Congestant 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.
Convulsant 1 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator 1 *
Counterirritant 1 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 2 *
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 3 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.