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
Hepatoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	1	Martindale's 29th
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	1	Martindale's 29th
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MDR-Inhibitor	3	Genne, P., Duchamp, O., Solary, E., Magnette, J., Belon, J. P., Chauffert, B. 1995. Cinchonine Per OS: Efficient Circumvention of P-Glycoprotein-Mediated Multidrug Resistance. Anticancer Drug Design, 10(2): 103-118.
Myorelaxant	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxytocic	2	Duke, 1992 *
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	8	Duke, 1992 *
Phototoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Spermicide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Stomachic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Trypanocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *