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Plant 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
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 7.0 19.0 2.23 Duke, 1992 *
TIN 4 Leaf not available 11.0 -0.55 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
TRANS-2-ACETOXY-PULEGONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-2-HYDROXYMENTHONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CARVEOL 1 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CARVEYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-LINALOOL-OXIDE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VINYL-GUAIACOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Leaf not available 84.0 -0.01 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antilithic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiLyme 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 3 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimastalgic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanomic 6 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetrorrhagic 1 Fitoterapia No.55-1984.
Antimigraine 4 Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.