Plant Ilex paraguariensis (Aquifoliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Mate; Paraguay Tea; South American Holly

How this plant is used

Food

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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
2,5-XYLENOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-OXOLAURIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-O-CAFFEOYLQUINIC-ACID	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	not available	42500.0	-1.35	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	13000.0	-1.05	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE	62	Leaf	2000.0	20000.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL	21	Leaf	not available	19000.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Leaf	not available	3000.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	161000.0	173000.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	not available	176800.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYRIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCAPRONIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERIC-ACID	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID	11	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	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
Neurotoxic	2	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	3	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osmoregulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Oxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Perfumery	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide	11	Duke, 1992 *
Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Progesteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Propecic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Secretor	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	2	Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Pyrogenic	1	Daroca, P., Rodriguez, J., Reano, M., Canto, G., Miranda, P. 1996. Fever From Caffeine. Allergy, 51(3): 189-191.