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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
CADINA-1-9(15)-DIENE 0 Essential Oil *
CADINENE 4 Fruit Essent. Oil 40000.0 140000.0 *
CALAMENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 10000.0 *
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 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CINEOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
COPAENE 1 Essential Oil *
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 81000.0 *
CUBEBIC-ACID 1 Fruit 10000.0 17000.0 *
CUBEBIN 3 Fruit 25000.0 *
CUBEBINOLIDE 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CUBEBOL 0 Fruit 10000.0 20000.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CUBEBOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 309000.0 *
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 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
D-LIMONENE 19 Fruit Essent. Oil *
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 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Intoxicant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 13 *
Larvicide 3 *
Laxative 2 *
Lipolytic 1 *
Litholytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Monooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Mosquitocide 1 *
Mosquitofuge 2 *
Motor-Depressant 2 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mutagenic 3 *
Myocontractant 1 *
Myorelaxant 5 *
Nematicide 6 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nephrotoxic 1 *
Neurotoxic 2 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
NO-Genic 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ozone-Scavenger 1 *