Plant Berberis vulgaris (Berberidaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Barberry

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	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PROTEIN	0	Root	not available	66000.0	-0.59	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Bark	not available	9.4	2.07	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Root	not available	9.4	1.17	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
RUTIN	87	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SELENIUM	60	Bark	not available	3.4	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Root	not available	3.4	-0.12	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILICON	4	Bark	not available	2.3	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Root	not available	2.3	-0.33	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SINAPIC-ACID	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Bark	not available	350.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Root	not available	350.0	-0.35	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
STARCH	5	Bark	not available	90000.0	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SUGAR	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
TANNIN	35	Fruit	not available	55600.0	-0.38	Jim Duke's personal files.
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Root	not available	10.0	0.30	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.

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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
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	9	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	3	Martindale's 28th
Antivaricose	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiwart	1	Mitchell, J. and Rook, A.J. 1923. Botanical Dermatology: plants and plant products injurious to the skin. Vancouver: Greengrass, 1979. xiii, 787 p.: ill.