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
THIAMINE	0	Fruit	0.6	7.8	2.07	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Fruit	4.0	50.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-2-HEXENAL	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMALDEHYDE	7	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Fruit	not available	2500.0	-0.27	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
URSOLIC-ACID	89	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.
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	not available	920000.0	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN	5	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	1.0	8.7	-0.65	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
Dermatitigenic	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th
Diuretic	13	Merck 11th Edition
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	2	Merck 11th Edition
Elastase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.