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
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.

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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
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	23	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	10	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	3	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).