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
OXALIC-ACID	9	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.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CRESOL	8	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-DIMETHYL-ALPHA-STYRENE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PAEONIDIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PAEONIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PARACOUMARIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Fruit	4000.0	50000.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
PENTAN-1-OIC-ACID	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTAN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.1	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PENTYL-FURAN	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEONIDIN	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEONIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEONIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE	0	Leaf	22.0	44.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEONIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEONIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEONIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	34.0	68.0	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
Hypertensive	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypnotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	12	Choi, J.S., Yokozawa,* T., and Oura, H. Antihyperlipidemic Effect Of Flavonoids From Prunus davidiana. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 218-224, 1991.
Hypoglycemic	15	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	16	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	12	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	15	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant	6	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	7	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	12	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge?	1	Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile	4	Merck 11th Edition
Insulin-Sparing	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic	7	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *