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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
L-MENTHONE 0 Essential Oil CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LIMONENE 60 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 2210.0 -0.74 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 675.0 0.66 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MENTHOFURAN 5 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MENTHOL 63 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MENTHOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MENTHONE 30 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MUCILAGE 3 Leaf CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MYRCENE 22 Leaf *
MYRCENE 22 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MYRTANOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MYRTANOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MYRTENOL 2 Leaf Essent. Oil *
MYRTENYL-ACETATE 1 Leaf Essent. Oil *
NEOISOPULEGOLE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
NEOMENTHOL 2 Leaf Essent. Oil *
NEROL 10 Leaf Essent. Oil *
NEROL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
NEROL-ACETONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
PPAR-Gamma-Antagonist 1 *
ProHLDL 1 *
Proliferant 1 *
Prooxidant 1 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 3 Chen, S. J., Wang, M. H., Chen, I. J. 1996. Antiplatelet and Calcium Inhibitory Properties of Eugenol and Sodium Eugenol Acetate. Gen Pharmacol, 27(4): 629-633.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 2 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 1 *
Psychoactive 1 *
PTK-Inhibitor 1 *
Pulifuge 1 *
Pulmonotoxic 3 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 1 Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective 2 *
Refrigerant 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.
Renoirritant 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Rubefacient 1 *
Sedative 14 Ortiz de Urbina, A.V., Martin*, M.L., Montero, M.J., Moran, A., and San Roman, L. 1988. Sedating and Antipyretic Activity of the Essential Oil of Calamintha sylvatica subsp. Ascendens. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 25: 165-171, 1989.
Serotoninergic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).