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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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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Endorphinogenic 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.
Energizer 1 *
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant 2 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Epileptigenic 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.
Epinephrininergic 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.
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic 6 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 11 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 45 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 30 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 *