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
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	Duke, 1992 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	12	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	4	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic	3	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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.