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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
2-METHYL-PENTANOIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
2-TRANS-4-TRANS-8-TRANS-PIPERAMIDE-C-9-3 0 Fruit 69.0 *
2-TRANS-6-TRANS-PIPERAMIDE-C-7-2 0 Fruit 80.0 *
2-TRANS-8-TRANS-PIPERAMIDE-C-9-2 0 Fruit 5.0 *
2-TRANS-PIPERAMIDE-C-5-1 0 Fruit 75.0 *
2-UNDECANONE 4 Fruit *
3,4-DIHYDROXY-6-(N-ETHYL-AMINO)-BENZAMIDE 0 Fruit *
3,8(9)-P-MENTHADIEN-1-OL 0 Fruit *
3-METHYL-BUTYRIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
4,10,10-TRIMETHYL-7-METHYLENE-BICYCLO-(6.2.0)DECANE-4-CAR... 0 Plant *
4-METHYL-TRIACONTANE 0 Plant =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
4-METHYL-TRITRIACONTANE 0 Leaf *
5,10(15)-CADINEN-4-OL 0 Fruit *
6-TRANS-PIPERAMIDE-C-7-1 0 Fruit 98.0 *
8-TRANS-PIPERAMIDE-C-9-1 0 Fruit 197.0 *
ACETOPHENONE 6 Fruit Essent. Oil 5000.0 *
ACETYL-CHOLINE 19 Seed 23.0 -1.19 *
ALPHA-AMORPHENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 15100.0 *
ALPHA-BISABOLENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 21200.0 *
ALPHA-BULNESENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 8200.0 -1.00 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Gastric) 1 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 2 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.
Anticarcinogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 8 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 9 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticatarrh 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticephalagic 3 *
Anticerebrotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 *
AntiCFS 3 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinesterase 1 *