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

Common Names
Black Pepper; Pepper; White Pepper
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Fruit Essent. Oil 41000.0 -0.47 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Seed Essent. Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit 2355.0 -0.22 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil 85000.0 138000.0 0.96 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil *
BETA-PINONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BETA-SELINENE 3 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-SELINENE 3 Fruit Essent. Oil 6400.0 -1.00 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 380.0 650.0 0.06 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Leaf *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Stem 160.0 -1.33 *
BORNEOL 35 Fruit *
BORNEOL 35 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BORON 4 Fruit 0.5 18.0 -0.44 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Fruit *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit 6.0 -0.34 *
CALAMENE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CALAMENENE 0 Fruit *
CALAMENENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Capillarigenic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective 2 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 9 *
Carcinogenic? 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiodepressant 2 Martindale's 29th
Cardiomyopathogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective 8 *
Cardiotonic 2 *
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Cardiovascular 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Carminative 7 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-3-Inducer 1 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Catabolic 2 *
Catecholaminogenic 1 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.
Cerebrostimulant 1 *
Cerebrotonic 1 *
Chemopreventive 8 *
Cholagogue 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 10 *