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Plant Berberis vulgaris (Berberidaceae)

Common Names
Barberry
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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
ALKALOIDS 0 Bark not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ALKALOIDS 0 Root not available 30000.0 0.54 Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ALKALOIDS 0 Stem Bark not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-GLUCAN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Leaf not available 213.0 -0.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALUMINUM 5 Bark not available 489.0 1.22 Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM 5 Root not available 489.0 -0.05 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 1560.0 3800.0 -0.05 Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Root not available 0.0 -0.65 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ASH 0 Bark not available 100000.0 0.78 Duke, 1992 *
ASH 0 Root not available 100000.0 0.93 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BARGUSTANINE 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBAMINE 38 Bark not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBAMINE 38 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BERBAMINE 38 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBAMINE 38 Root Bark not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBAMINE 38 Stem Bark not available 5900.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Amphiglycemic? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic 13 Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic? 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anesthetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic 1 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.
Anthelmintic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenergic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiaflatoxin 2 Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE 2 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
Antiaggregant 9 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiallergic 6 Duke, 1992 *