Plant Piper nigrum (Piperaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Black Pepper; Pepper; White Pepper

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ALPHA-CIS-BERGAMOTENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CIS-BERGAMOTENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CIS-BERGAMOTENE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	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	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	16200.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CUBEBINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GUAIENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GUAIENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	1100.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GURJUNENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	7800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Fruit Essent. Oil	2100.0	19500.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Fruit	not available	3810.0	0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Fruit Essent. Oil	45000.0	94000.0	0.40	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antianorectic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiapoplectic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	43	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticancer	13	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *