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Plant Barosma betulina (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Buchu
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
PROTEIN 0 Leaf not available 92000.0 -1.20 Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE 28 Leaf 1650.0 2750.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETRIN-3,7-GLUCOSIDE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Leaf not available 50000.0 -0.28 Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Leaf not available 1.1 -0.17 Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN 87 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM 60 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SILICON 4 Leaf not available 43.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Leaf not available 2760.0 -0.16 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 7.0 19.0 2.23 Duke, 1992 *
TIN 4 Leaf not available 11.0 -0.55 Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Leaf not available 84.0 -0.01 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
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 8 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic 2 Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinesterase 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Anticirrhotic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlastogen 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric 4 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoeliac 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticold 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplementary 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant 4 Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
Anticorneotic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticoronary 3 Duke, 1992 *
AntiCrohn's 3 Martindale's 29th
AntiCTS 1 Duke, 1992 *