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
PEONIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	131.0	262.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE	0	Leaf	108.0	216.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	189.0	378.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	367.0	734.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL	26	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	856.0	10700.0	2.27	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Fruit	not available	0.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1338.0	16730.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-A-1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-3	2	Fruit	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
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	2	Martindale's 28th
Antihepatitic	4	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatomic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antihepatotoxic	17	Merck 11th Edition
Antiherpetic	13	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *