Plant Vaccinium myrtillus (Ericaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bilberry; Whortleberry; Dwarf Bilberry

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
PEONIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	131.0	262.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE	0	Leaf	108.0	216.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	189.0	378.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	367.0	734.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL	26	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	856.0	10700.0	2.27	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Fruit	not available	0.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1338.0	16730.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-A-1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-3	2	Fruit	not available	not available	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
Antiurease	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaricose	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	27	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiwrinkle	2	Martindale's 28th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	6	Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	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.
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	4	Merck 11th Edition