Plant Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Ericaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cowberry; Lingen; Lingonberry

How this plant is used

Food

Variety

minus

Variety Author

LODD.

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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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Fruit	not available	3500.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-AMINOCYCLOPROPAN-1-CARBONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-O-CAFFEOYL-ARBUTIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXY-PHENYL-BETA-GENTIOBIOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-HYDROXY-PIPECOLIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Fruit	5.0	53.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
ARBUTIN	15	Leaf	40000.0	90000.0	0.56	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	280.0	1865.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	2500.0	18000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
AVICULARIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Fruit	not available	1360.0	1.73	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-HYDROXY-KETO-BUTYRIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Fruit	1.4	11.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
BROMINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Fruit	0.0	0.1	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	180.0	1730.0	-0.49	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
Antipsoriac	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipyretic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	12	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiRaynaud's	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinopathic	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
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antirhinitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiseborrheic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antiserotonin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisilicotic	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire	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
Antispasmodic	6	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.
Antispasmophilic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic	4	Duke, 1992 *