Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Bearberry, Uva Ursi
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
ERYTHRODIOL 0 Leaf *
FAT 0 Leaf 3016.0 26000.0 -0.61 *
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 *
FIBER 15 Leaf 121000.0 -0.50 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Leaf 121000.0 -0.17 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Leaf 362000.0 -0.15 *
FLUORIDE 3 Leaf 3.2 -1.00 *
FOENICULIN 0 Leaf *
FORMIC-ACID 13 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GALLIC-ACID 62 Leaf *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Plant *
GALLO-TANNIN 2 Leaf 150000.0 200000.0 *
GALLOTANNINS 0 Leaf *
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Leaf *
HEXA-O-GALLOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSE 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HOMOPROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 0 Leaf *
HYDROQUINONE 32 Leaf 2000.0 5000.0 *
HYDROQUINONE-GLYCOSIDES 0 Leaf 50000.0 180000.0 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
HYDROQUINONES 0 Leaf 5800.0 180000.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatotonic 1 (View) *
Hepatotoxic 3 (View) Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatotropic 2 (View) *
Herbicide 3 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224.
Hydrocholerectic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypertensive 2 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypocholesterolemic 8 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 11 (View) Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipemic 1 (View) *
Hypolipidemic 3 (View) *
Hypotensive 15 (View) *
Hypouricemic 1 (View) *
Immunomodulator 8 (View) *
Immunostimulant 13 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant 5 (View) *
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Inotropic 1 (View) *
Insectifuge 5 (View) Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.