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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apertif	1	Duke, 1992 *
Astringent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	1	HerbalGram No. 22 - Spring 1990, page 14.
Carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiodepressant	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.
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	3	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Dermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.