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Plant Callicarpa americana (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
American Beauty Berry; Beauty Berry; French Mulberry
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf not available 7.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
PINOCARVONE 1 Leaf not available 2.0 -0.64 Duke, 1992 *
TERPIN-4-OL 0 Leaf not available 3.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf not available 0.6 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ARBUSCULONE 0 Leaf not available 0.6 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-SABINOL 0 Leaf not available 2.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
VALENCENE 0 Leaf not available 40.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Coleoptophile 1 Duke, 1992 *
Convulsant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Counterirritant 1 Martindale's 29th
Culicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Decongestant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Degranulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Dentifrice 1 Martindale's 29th
Deodorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Edemagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Expectorant 5 Duke, 1992 *
FLavor 17 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 7 Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 1 Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *