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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Vaccinium myrtillus (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Bilberry; Whortleberry; Dwarf Bilberry
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
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE 0 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE 0 Leaf 219.0 438.0 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE 4 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE 4 Leaf 275.0 550.0 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 19 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 19 Leaf 342.0 684.0 *
CYANIDIN-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant *
DELPHINIDIN 9 Fruit *
DELPHINIDIN-3-MONOGLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE 0 Fruit *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE 0 Leaf 432.0 864.0 *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 1 Fruit *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE 0 Fruit *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE 0 Leaf 504.0 1004.0 *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf 581.0 1162.0 *
DELPHINIDIN-3-RHAMNOGLYCOSIDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DELPHINIDIN-5-MONOGLYCOSIDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DELPHINIDIN-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant *
DELTA-DECALACTONE 1 Fruit Juice *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Convulsant 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-87.
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator 1 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 6 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 11 *
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 3 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 9 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytoprotective 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 12 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Demulcent 2 *
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Depigmentor 1 Merck 11th Edition
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.