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
Enterorelaxant	2	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrosedative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionalytic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-92.
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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.