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
Antilithic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Antimange	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimite	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antinarcotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuralgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosaminic	3	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferant	4	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.