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
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 *

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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).