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Common Names
Barberry
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OXYACANTHINE | 10 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| OXYACANTHINE | 10 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OXYACANTHINE | 10 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| OXYACANTHINE | 10 | Root Bark | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| OXYACANTHINE | 10 | Stem Bark | not available | 10000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PALMATINE | 17 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PALMATINE | 17 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PALMATINE | 17 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PALMATINE | 17 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PECTIN | 24 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PECTOSE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PELARGONIN | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PEONIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PETUNIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Bark | not available | 450.0 | -0.64 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Root | not available | 450.0 | -0.54 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| POLYSACCHARIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Bark | not available | 4370.0 | -0.35 | Duke, 1992 * |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Root | not available | 4370.0 | -0.84 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Bark | not available | 66000.0 | -0.49 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| P450-Inhibitor | 1 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| PAF-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Paralytic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Peristaltic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pesticide | 29 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PGE2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phagocytotic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Phospholipase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phototoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pigment | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Piscicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Plasmodicide | 3 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Potassium-Sparing | 1 | Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp. |
| Poultice | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Preservative | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Proliferant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prooxidant | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Sparer | 1 | Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990. |