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
GALLIC-ACID	62	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN	0	Leaf	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.
GAMMA-BUTYROLACTONE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-DECALACTONE	3	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-DODECALACTONE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-OCTALACTONE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-OIC-ACID	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOMOPROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROQUINONE	32	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROQUINONE	32	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXY-ISOCARVOMENTHOL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPEROSIDE	30	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPEROSIDE	30	Fruit Juice	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
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
COX-1-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	11	Duke, 1992 *
Culicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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.