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Plant Piper nigrum (Piperaceae)

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
TERPIN-1-EN-4-OL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 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.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 1900.0 -0.67 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 1000.0 -0.73 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINYL-ACETATE 5 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.
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.5 1.6 -0.48 Duke, 1992 *
THUJENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROLS 0 Fruit not available 0.3 not available Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
TOCOPHEROLS 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available 5400.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CARVEOL 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CARVEOL 1 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 100.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CIS-PIPERINE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-NEROLIDOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 1200.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-PINOCARVEOL 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-PINOCARVEOL 2 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-SABINENE-HYDRATE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-SABINENE-HYDRATE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 1400.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-TRANS-PIPERINE 0 Fruit not available 30000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigliomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglucuronidase 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.
Antiglutamaergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigoiter 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.