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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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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-CIS-BERGAMOTENE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-CIS-BERGAMOTENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-CIS-BERGAMOTENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 8200.0 15800.0 1.00 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 16200.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-CUBEBINE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-GUAIENE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-GUAIENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 1100.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-GURJUNENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 7800.0 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Fruit *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Fruit Essent. Oil 2100.0 19500.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Fruit 2200.0 2458.0 -0.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Fruit Essent. Oil 6800.0 36000.0 -0.56 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Seed Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit 3810.0 0.28 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit Essent. Oil 45000.0 94000.0 0.40 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed Essent. Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Controlled 1 HerbalGram No. 20, page 15.
Convulsant 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.
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator 2 *
Cosmetic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 2 Martindale's 28th
COX-1-Inhibitor 5 Stohr, J. R., Xiao, P. G., Bauer, R. 1999. Isobutylamides and a New Methylbutylamide from Piper sarmentosum. Planta Med., 65(2): 175-177.
COX-2-Inhibitor 6 *
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 5 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 3 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytochrome-P488-Inducer 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytoprotective 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 7 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Decongestant 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Degranulant 1 *