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
Antifertility	1	Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotropic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	1	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.