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
Insectifuge	20	Bowers, W.S., Ortego, F., You, X., and Evans, P.H. Insect Repellents From The Chinese Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Journal of Natural Products, 56(6): 935-938, 1993.
Insectiphile	3	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulinogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	17	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.
Juvabional	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	2	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative	4	Duke, 1992 *
Leptingenic	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
Lipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	2	Martindale's 28th
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
MDR-Inhibitor	1	Critchfield, J. W., Welsh, C. J., Phang, J. M., Yeh, G. C. 1994. Modulation of Adriamycin Accumulation and Efflux by Flavonoids in HCT-15 Colon Cells. Activation of P-Glycoprotein as a Putative Mechanism. Biochem Pharmacol, 48(7): 1437-1445.
Memorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metal-Chelator (Copper)	1	Seidel, V., Verholle, M., Malard, Y., Tillequin, F., Fruchart, J-C., Duriez, P., Bailleul, F., Teissier, E. 2000. Phenylpropanoids from Ballota nigra L. Inhibit in vitro LDL Peroxidation. Phytotherapy Research, 14(2): 93-98.