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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Piper auritum (Piperaceae)

Common Names
Cordoncillo; Hierba Santa; Hoja Santa
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
SABINENE 5 Leaf Tramil
SAFROLE 29 Leaf 3290.0 4930.0 1.41 *
SPATHULENOL 0 Leaf Tramil
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Tramil
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 1.2 6.7 -0.33 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
WATER 0 Leaf 804000.0 822000.0 0.07 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antifeedant 10 *
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic 1 *
Antiflu 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antigallstone 1 *
Antigastritic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigenotoxic 1 *
Antigingivitic 1 *
Antiglaucomic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic 1 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antihalitosic 1 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover 3 *
Antiheartburn 1 *
Antihelicobacter 1 *
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatotoxic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.