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Plant Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Cowberry; Lingen; Lingonberry
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
minus
Variety Author
LODD.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiwrinkle 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antixerophthalmic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic 6 Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide 1 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 3 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.
Atherogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bacteristat 3 Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 3 Zhu, M., Phillipson, J. D., Greengrass, P. M., Bowery, N. E., Cai, Y. 1997. Plant Polyphenols: Biologically Active Compounds or Non-Selective Binders to Protein? Phytochemistry, 44(3): 441-447.
Beta-Blocker 2 Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchodilator 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bruchiphobe 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.