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
MYRCENE	22	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL	11	Fruit	3500.0	7000.0	1.70	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NEROLIDOL	11	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	36000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCIMENE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
OCIMENE	2	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERENOL A	0	Fruit	not available	1500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERENOL B	0	Fruit	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERIDINE	10	Fruit	1400.0	2600.0	0.67	Duke, 1992 *
PIPERINE	61	Fruit	2000.0	4000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
RESINOIDS	0	Fruit	64000.0	85000.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RESINS	0	Fruit	30000.0	37000.0	-1.00	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
SABINENE	5	Fruit	4600.0	9200.0	2.35	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
SABINENE	5	Fruit Essent. Oil	7000.0	470000.0	2.04	Duke, 1992 *
SABINOL	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
SAFROLE	29	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TERPINEOL	18	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	23000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-TERPINENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	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
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.