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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
ALPHA-SANTALENE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-SANTALENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Fruit *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Fruit Essent. Oil 700.0 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil 3000.0 -0.57 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Essent. Oil 1000.0 -0.91 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL ACETATE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 8600.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 7300.0 29000.0 -0.23 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Fruit 0.1 -1.12 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Resin, Exudate, Sap 1000.0 *
ALPHA-TRANS-BERGAMOTENE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-ZINGIBERENE 1 Fruit Essent. Oil 50100.0 *
AR-CURCUMENE 3 Fruit *
AR-CURCUMENE 3 Fruit Essent. Oil 2600.0 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 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
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 10.0 -0.28 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Immunomodulator 9 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 8 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant 1 Martindale's 29th
Inflammatory 1 *
Inhalant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 *
Inotropic 2 *
Insect-Repellent 2 *
Insecticide 14 *
Insecticide-Synergist 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insectifuge 30 Bowers, W.S., Ortego, F., You, X., and Evans, P.H. Insect Repellents From The Chinese Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Journal of Natural Products, 56(6): 935-938, 1993.
Insectiphile 6 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinogenic 4 *
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 23 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *