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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

 Schisandra chinensis (Schisandraceae)

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Common name(s)
Chinese Magnolia Vine, Five-Flavor-Fruit, Magnolia Vine, Schizandra, Wu Wei Zi, Wu Wei Zu
How used
Medicinal

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# Activity Chemical Name Part Low PPM High PPM StdDev *Reference
0 (+)-DEOXYSCHIZANDRIN Fruit -- 548.1 -- *
0 (+)-GOMISIN-K-2 Fruit -- 7.0 -- *
0 (-)-GOMISIN-K-1 Fruit -- 63.0 -- *
0 (DL)-GAMMA-SCHIZANDRIN Fruit -- -- -- *
0 6-O-BENZOYLGOMISIN-I Fruit -- 3.3 -- *
0 ALPHA-CHAMIGRENE Fruit -- -- -- Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
5 ALUMINUM Fruit -- 174.0 -0.17 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
0 ANGELOYLGOMISIN-H Fruit 65.0 310.0 -- *
0 ANGELOYLGOMISIN-O Fruit -- 10.1 -- *
0 ANGELOYLGOMISIN-P Fruit -- 8.0 -- *
0 ANGELOYLGOMISIN-Q Fruit -- 47.0 -- *
0 ANGELOYLISOGOMISIN-O Fruit -- -- -- Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
0 ARGOLIC-ACID Fruit -- -- -- Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
2 ARSENIC Fruit -- 0.2 -0.31 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
112 ASCORBIC-ACID Fruit 153.0 1022.0 -0.22 *
0 ASH Fruit 6900.0 46000.0 -0.28 *
0 BENZOYLGOMISIN Fruit -- -- -- *
0 BENZOYLGOMISIN-H Fruit 20.0 30.0 -- *
0 BENZOYLISOGOMISIN-O Fruit -- -- -- Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
0 BETA-2-BISABOLENE Fruit -- -- -- Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
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*Unless otherwise noted all references are to Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press.