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
HYPEROSIDE	30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Fruit	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.
INVERT-SUGARS	0	Fruit	not available	300000.0	0.85	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
IRIDOIDS	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	12.0	151.0	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	not available	250.0	-0.29	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID	4	Fruit	not available	250.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID	4	Leaf	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL	16	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOFERULIC-ACID	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Fruit	0.0	0.7	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOANTHOCYANINS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Fruit	2.6	26.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
M-COUMARIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
M-COUMARIC-ACID	0	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
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