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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
ASH 0 Fruit 42932.0 60000.0 0.09 *
ASTRAGALIN 7 Fruit *
BEHENIC-ACID 1 Fruit =ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp
BENZOIC-ACID 20 Fruit *
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Fruit Essent. Oil 21200.0 111600.0 1.00 *
BETA-BISABOLOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 2000.0 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.1 0.1 -0.15 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 160000.0 352000.0 2.21 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 30000.0 -0.23 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Seed *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE-ALCOHOL 0 Fruit *
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BETA-CUBEBINE 0 Fruit *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Fruit Essent. Oil 900.0 -0.83 *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Fruit *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
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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 *