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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 11700.0 -0.82 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 92000.0 -1.20 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PSEUDODIOSPHENOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
PULEGONE 28 Leaf 1650.0 2750.0 -0.33 *
PULEGONE-EPOXIDE-A 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
QUERCETIN-3,7-DI-O-BETA-D-GLUGOSIDE 0 Leaf *
QUERCETIN-3,7-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf *
QUERCETRIN-3,7-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Essential Oil CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
QUERCETRIN-3,7-GLUCOSIDE 0 Essential Oil *
RESIN 0 Leaf 50000.0 -0.28 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Leaf 1.1 -0.17 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
RUTIN 87 Essential Oil CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RUTIN 87 Leaf *
SABINENE 5 Leaf Essent. Oil *
SELENIUM 60 Leaf 70.0 5.00 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILICON 4 Leaf 43.0 -0.29 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SODIUM 1 Leaf 2760.0 -0.16 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SPATHULENOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antigliomic 1 *
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric 1 *
Antigonadotropic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigout 1 *
AntiGTF 1 *
Antihalitosic 1 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover 4 *
Antiheartburn 1 *
Antihelicobacter 2 *
Antihematuric 1 *
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal 2 *
Antihepatitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatotoxic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 5 *
Antiherpetic? 1 *
Antihistaminic 9 Ortiz De Urbina, A.V., Martin, M.L., Montero, M.J., Carron, R., Sevilla, M.A., San Roman, L. 1989. Antihistaminic activity of pulegone on the guinea-pig ileum. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 295-296, 1990.
AntiHIV 3 *
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.