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
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Bark	not available	19100.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	not available	19100.0	1.28	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CAPSANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Bark	not available	791000.0	0.18	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	not available	791000.0	-0.50	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CHELIDONIC-ACID	2	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.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CHROMIUM	24	Bark	not available	1.2	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Root	not available	1.2	-0.32	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CHRYSANTHEMUMXANTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Bark	not available	4.2	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Root	not available	4.2	-0.45	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
COLUMBAMINE	7	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
COLUMBAMINE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLUMBAMINE	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
COLUMBAMINE	7	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
COLUMBAMINE	7	Stem Bark	not available	2900.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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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
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Elastase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Emollient	1	Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	10	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glaucomagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *