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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Fruit *
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Leaf *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Fruit *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Leaf *
(-)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN 21 Leaf *
1,8-CINEOL 0 Fruit Juice *
2-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit Juice *
2-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 *
2-METHOXY-5-VINYL-PHENOL 0 Fruit Juice *
2-METHYL-BUTAN-1-OL 0 Fruit Juice *
2-METHYL-BUTANOIC-ACID 0 Fruit Juice 0.1 1.00 *
2-PHENYLETHANOL 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 *
3,4-DIHYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
3-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 *
3-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit Juice *
3-PHENYL-PROPAN-1-OL 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 *
4-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 0 Fruit Juice *
4-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 0 Leaf *
4-VINLYPHENOL 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 *
ACETIC-ACID 16 Fruit Juice 0.3 -1.00 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 *
Irritant 12 *
Juvabional 4 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 *
Keratolytic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Larvicide 4 *
Larvistat 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 8 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 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
Leucocytogenic 2 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 3 *
Lipotropic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 14 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Lithogenic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.