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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Callicarpa americana (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
American Beauty Berry; Beauty Berry; French Mulberry
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf 7.0 -0.39 *
PINOCARVONE 1 Leaf 2.0 -0.64 *
TERPIN-4-OL 0 Leaf 3.0 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf 0.6 -0.23 *
TRANS-ARBUSCULONE 0 Leaf 0.6 *
TRANS-SABINOL 0 Leaf 2.0 *
VALENCENE 0 Leaf 40.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibacillary 1 *
Antibacterial 10 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibronchitic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticancer 3 *
Anticariogenic 4 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticatarrh 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticholinesterase 1 *
Anticolic 1 *
Anticonvulsant 1 *
Antiedemic 2 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiescherichic 1 *
Antiesophagitic 1 *
Antifatigue 1 *
Antifeedant 6 *
Antiflu 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antiglutamaergic 1 *
Antihalitosic 1 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihistaminic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiinflammatory 8 *
Antilaryngitic 1 *