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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	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.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	3	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Anticataract	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticholestatic	1	Shukla, B., Visen, P.K.S., Patnaik, G.K., Tripathi, S.C., Srimal, R.C., Dayal, R., and Dobhal, P.C. Hepatoprotective Activity in the Rat of Ursolic Acid Isolated from Eucalyptus Hybrid. Phytotherapy Research 6: 74-79, 1992.
Anticirrhotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlimacteric	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoeliac	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticold	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).