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
HYPERIN	14	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.
HYPEROSIDE	30	Leaf	not available	13000.0	1.72	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	12.0	105.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Leaf	not available	2710.0	-0.50	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LUPEOL	21	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	140.0	1210.0	-1.13	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	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.
MANGANESE	14	Leaf	2.0	16.5	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-ARBUTIN	0	Leaf	not available	57.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-ARBUTIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MO	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MONOTROPEIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MONOTROPEIN	2	Shoot	not available	250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN	34	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-GYLCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Leaf	1.4	12.0	-1.04	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
Antipoliomyelitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antipsoriac	5	Martindale's 28th
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	17	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiRaynaud's	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinopathic	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
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *