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
COLUMBIANINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CYANIN	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANIN	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ESCULETIN	30	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
FAT	0	Bark	not available	43000.0	1.75	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	not available	43000.0	0.67	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER	15	Root	not available	134000.0	1.02	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Bark	not available	134000.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Bark	not available	440000.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVOXANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDRASTINE	16	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPEROSIDE	30	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
IRON	6	Bark	not available	141.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Root	not available	141.0	-0.24	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOTETRANDRINE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JATRORRHIZINE	13	Bark	not available	not available	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).