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Plant Vaccinium corymbosum (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Blueberry
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE 67 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2-METHOXY-5-VINYL-PHENOL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-BUTANOIC-ACID 0 Fruit Juice not available 0.1 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
2-PHENYLETHANOL 0 Fruit 0.0 0.3 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-PHENYL-PROPAN-1-OL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-VINYL-PHENOL 0 Fruit Juice not available 0.1 not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID 16 Fruit Juice not available 0.7 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID-HEXYL-ESTER 0 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE 3 Fruit 280.0 1820.0 -0.74 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CAROTENE 7 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CEDRENE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.41 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Fruit 18.0 116.0 0.66 Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE 14 Fruit 340.0 2210.0 -0.56 Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 125.0 878.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
ASH 0 Fruit 2070.0 13845.0 -1.11 Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Fruit 520.0 3379.0 -0.89 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
Antihistaminic 9 Ortiz De Urbina, A.V., Martin, M.L., Montero, M.J., Carron, R., Sevilla, M.A., San Roman, L. 1989. Antihistaminic activity of pulegone on the guinea-pig ileum. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 295-296, 1990.
AntiHIV 11 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihomocystinuric 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihydrocoele 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipidemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 9 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiielus? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiimpotence 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiincontinence 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal 1 Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.