Plant Piper cubeba (Piperaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cubeb; Cubeb Pepper

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
CADINA-1-9(15)-DIENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADINENE	4	Fruit Essent. Oil	40000.0	140000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENENE	0	Fruit	3700.0	7400.0	1.97	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Fruit	3700.0	7400.0	-0.18	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CESARONE	0	Fruit	3700.0	4700.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CINEOL	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPAENE	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPAENE	1	Fruit	10400.0	20800.0	1.41	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
COPAENE	1	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	81000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUBEBIC-ACID	1	Fruit	10000.0	17000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUBEBIN	3	Fruit	not available	25000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUBEBINOLIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CUBEBOL	0	Fruit	10000.0	20000.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CUBEBOL	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	309000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUBENOL	0	Fruit	1750.0	3500.0	1.00	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
D-DELTA-4-CARENE	0	Fruit	300.0	1200.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
D-LIMONENE	19	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Fruit	8800.0	17600.0	2.24	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DILLAPIOLE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.

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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
Antiaggregant	1	Janssens, J., Laekeman, G.M., Pieters, L.A.C., Totte, J., Herman, A.G., and Vlietinck, A.J. 1990. Nutmeg Oil: Identification and Quantitation of its Most Active Constituents as Inhibitors of Platelet Aggregation. J.of Ethnopharmacology, 29: 179-188, 1990.
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	3	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	17	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	6	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	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *