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Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) is a medicinal plant traditionally employed for the treatment of urinary tract infections due to high contents of arbutin (hydroquinone β-D-glucoside), which is now mainly used as a natural skin-whitening agent in cosmetics. Bearberry has also been proposed
Introduction: Arbutin is a phenol glucoside found in high concentrations in bearberry leaves and associated with the antimicrobial activity of the plant. Hydroquinone can also be found in leaves or be formed by degradation of arbutin. Lengthy exposure to free
Active principles of bearberry have been studied for several decades. The drug Folium uvae-ursi is useful to the pharmaceutical industry (in production of medicinal teas) for its disinfective effect on the urinary tract which is derived from the content of phenolic glucosides. This work is a part of