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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ASH	0	Seed	6000.0	33000.0	-0.45	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASPERULOSIDE	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AVICULARIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	20.0	172.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	1264.0	10900.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	94424.0	814000.0	1.61	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHOL-TANNINS	0	Leaf	150000.0	200000.0	0.71	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
CHROMIUM	24	Leaf	0.1	1.2	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	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.
COBALT	2	Leaf	0.2	1.7	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELPHINIDIN	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGOTANNINS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity Sort descending	Chemical Count	Reference
Vulnerary	4 (View Chemicals list for Vulnerary)	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	9 (View Chemicals list for Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor)	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229