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
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	21	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide	26	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Goitrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *