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

Common Names

Barberry

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Download these results as:

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.

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
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.