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
BERBAMUNINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Bark	not available	45000.0	1.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Flower	not available	6600.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Leaf	not available	3000.0	1.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Root	4000.0	64800.0	1.07	Duke, 1992 *
BERBERINE	130	Root Bark	25000.0	80000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERBERINE	130	Stem	1600.0	28900.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERINE	130	Stem Bark	20000.0	25000.0	1.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERRUBINE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERRUBINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERRUBINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERBERUBINE	0	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.
BERCULCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERLAMBINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BERVULCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	not available	0.0	-0.44	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-XYLAN	0	Leaf	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
Antiendotoxic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotoxic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiepileptic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesherichic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifatigue	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	1	Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.