Plant Cinchona officinalis (Rubiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Lojabark; Quinine

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
3-ALPHA,17-BETA-CINCHOPHYLLINE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-BETA,17-BETA-CINCHOPHYLLINE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AVICULARIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONIDINE	6	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONINE	7	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROQUINIDINE	3	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
QUINIDINE	23	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUININE	32	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	not available	not available	not available	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
Abortifacient	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888.
Allergenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Amebicide	4	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Analgesic	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anesthetic	1	Wealth of India.
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antibacterial	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Anticancer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinergic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrillary	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiflu	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Wealth of India.