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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
CIS-CARVEYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
CIS-LINALOOL-OXIDE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
CITRONELLOL 15 Leaf Essent. Oil *
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE 2 Leaf Essent. Oil *
COBALT 2 Leaf 87.0 0.22 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CYMOPYROCATECHOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
D-LIMONENE 19 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
DEC-CIS-4-ENOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DEC-TRANS-4-ENOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DELTA-TERPINEOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIHYDROCARVONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIOSMETIN 13 Leaf Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
DIOSMIN 34 Leaf 200.0 500.0 *
DIOSPHENOL 4 Leaf 1800.0 3600.0 0.71 *
DIOSPHENOL 4 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIOSPHENOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIOSPHENOLENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIPENTENE 7 Essential Oil CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
DL-PIPERITONE-EPOXIDE 0 Leaf 1425.0 2375.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DL-PIPERITONEPOXIDE 0 Leaf 1425.0 2375.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Enterorelaxant 2 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic 3 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 7 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.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 27 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 15 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.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 2 *
Gastrosedative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 *
Glutathionalytic 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-92.
GST-Inducer 1 *
Hallucinogenic 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.
Hemostat 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.