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
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Retinoprotectant Optometry	1	Duke, 1992 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Rodenticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Scabicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue	3	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Sedative	15	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Serotoninergic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue	1	Martindale's 29th
Sodium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Spermicide	2	Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sprout-Inhibitor	1	Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Stomachic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Styptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	5	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Sweetener	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th