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

Plant Barosma betulina (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Buchu
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
(+)-LIMONENE 0 Leaf 1500.0 2500.0 0.71 *
(+)-MENTHONE 0 Leaf 1350.0 2250.0 *
(+)-PULEGONE 4 Leaf 1500.0 3000.0 -0.15 *
(-)-ISOMENTHONE 0 Leaf 5250.0 8750.0 *
(-)-ISOPULEGONE 0 Leaf 450.0 900.0 *
(-)-PULEGONE 0 Leaf 1650.0 2750.0 -0.71 *
2-EPI-P-MENTHANE-8-THIOL-1-ONE 0 Plant *
4-TERPINEOL 8 Leaf *
8-ACETYLTHIO-P-MENTHAN-3-ONE 0 Essential Oil *
8-MERCAPTO-P-MENTHA-3-ONE 0 Leaf *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf *
ALUMINUM 5 Leaf 1360.0 0.68 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 4900.0 0.01 *
ASH 0 Leaf 81000.0 -0.67 *
BAROSMA-CAMPHOR 0 Leaf 1800.0 3000.0 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 38800.0 1.39 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf *
CHROMIUM 24 Leaf 29.0 1.83 *
COBALT 2 Leaf 87.0 0.22 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
5-HT-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Acaricide 2 (View) *
ACE-Inhibitor 4 (View) *
AChE-Inhibitor 1 (View) Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant 1 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 (View) *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 6 (View) *
Allelochemic 3 (View) *
Allelopathic 1 (View) Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
Allergenic 5 (View) *
Amphiglycemic? 1 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic 7 (View) *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 2 (View) *
Anorexic 1 (View) Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Anti-LDL 1 (View) *
Antiacetylcholinesterase 5 (View) *
Antiacne 5 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiacrodermatitic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th