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

Plant Cinchona pubescens (Rubiaceae)

Common Names
Quinine, Red Cinchona, Red Peruvian-Bark, Redbark
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Bark *
1-HYDROXY-2-HYDROXYMETHYLANTHRAQUINONE 1 Tissue Culture *
10-METHOXYCINCHONAMINE 2 Leaf *
10-METHOXYCINCHONAMINE 2 Tissue Culture *
2,4,5-TRIHYDROXY-1-METHOXY-ANTHRAQUINONE 0 Tissue Culture *
2-HYDROXY-1,3,4,6-TETRAMETHOXY-ANTHRAQUINONE 0 Tissue Culture *
2-HYDROXY-1,3,4-TRIMETHOXY-ANTHRAQUINONE 0 Tissue Culture *
3-ALPHA,17-ALPHA-CINCHOPHYLLINE 3 Stem *
3-ALPHA,17-BETA-CINCHOPHYLLINE 3 Leaf *
3-ALPHA,17-BETA-CINCHOPHYLLINE 3 Stem *
3-BETA,17-BETA-CINCHOPHYLLINE 3 Leaf *
3-EPIQUINAMINE 0 Leaf *
6,7-DIHYDROXY-1-METHOXY-2-METHYL-ANTHRAQUINONE 0 Tissue Culture *
ALIZARIN 11 Tissue Culture *
ALIZARIN-1-METHYL-ETHER 2 Tissue Culture *
ALIZARIN-2-METHYL-ETHER 3 Tissue Culture *
ALKALOIDS 0 Bark 50000.0 150000.0 1.44 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ANTHRAGALLOL-1,2-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Tissue Culture *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Bark *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Abortifacient 2 (View) *
ACE-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 3 (View) Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic 2 (View) Hanke, F. J., Natural Products as a Resource for Biologically Active Compounds, Thesis, U. Cal (Santa Cruz), 1986, 252 pp
Allergenic 6 (View) *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Amebicide 7 (View) Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Analgesic 5 (View) *
Anesthetic 1 (View) Wealth of India.
Antiadenoviral 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaggregant 2 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 2 (View) *
Antianaphylactic 1 (View) *
Antiarrhythmic 2 (View) Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 407.
Antiasthmatic 1 (View) *
Antiatherogenic 1 (View) *
Antiatherosclerotic 1 (View) *
Antibacterial 9 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.