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
Candidistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Capillarifortificant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillarigenic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective	2	Merck 11th Edition
Capillaritonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiac	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.
Cardiomyopathogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective	12	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carminative	2	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cathartic	2	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	3	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	14	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.