Plant Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Ericaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bearberry; Uva Ursi

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
ERYTHRODIOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	3016.0	26000.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	20000.0	500000.0	1.24	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FERULIC-ACID	61	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	not available	121000.0	-0.50	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Leaf	not available	121000.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Leaf	not available	362000.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORIDE	3	Leaf	not available	3.2	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FOENICULIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GALLIC-ACID	62	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLO-TANNIN	2	Leaf	150000.0	200000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOTANNINS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXA-O-GALLOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HOMOPROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROQUINONE	32	Leaf	2000.0	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROQUINONE-GLYCOSIDES	0	Leaf	50000.0	180000.0	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
HYDROQUINONES	0	Leaf	5800.0	180000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic	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.
Antimelanogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	4	New York Times, 3/28/95.
Antimelasmic	1	Martindale's 29th
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	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine	4	Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.