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

Common Names
Cubeb; Cubeb Pepper
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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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
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit 1100.0 2200.0 1.44 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 120000.0 130000.0 1.69 *
APIOLE 20 Fruit 300.0 600.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ASARONE 15 Fruit Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ASCHANTIN 0 Fruit 2000.0 *
AZULENE 10 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Fruit 1500.0 3000.0 1.60 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Fruit Essent. Oil 20000.0 -1.00 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 34000.0 -0.41 *
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Fruit 11000.0 22000.0 1.41 *
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 2000.0 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Fruit 1200.0 2400.0 2.72 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Fruit Essent. Oil 10000.0 -0.16 *
BETA-O-ETHYL-CUBEBIN 0 Fruit *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Fruit Essent. Oil 120000.0 130000.0 1.73 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BICYCLOSESQUIPHELLANDRENE 0 Essential Oil *
BICYCLOSESQUIPHELLANDRENE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antilithic 1 *
Antilymphomic 2 Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antimalarial 2 *
Antimange 1 *
Antimelanomic 1 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 *
Antimite 1 *
Antimutagenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antinarcotic 1 *
Antineuralgic 1 *
Antinitrosaminic 3 *
Antinociceptive 3 Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.
Antiobesity 1 *
Antionychyotic 1 Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
Antioxidant 4 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antipharyngitic 1 *
Antiplaque 1 *
Antiplasmodial 2 Sabinsa: A series of well documented proprietary PR booklets,
e.g.Sabinsa Corps. 1998. Bronchial Asthma - Its etiology and control with traditional herbal extracts. Sabinsa Corporation. Piscataway, NJ. 49 pp.
Antipneumonic 1 *
Antiproliferant 4 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.