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

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
QUINIDINONE	2	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUININE	32	Bark	21800.0	65753.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
QUININE	32	Leaf	400.0	9200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUININE	32	Root	not available	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUININE	32	Shoot	not available	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUININE	32	Stem	not available	112.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINOVIC-ACID	3	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
QUINOVIC-ACID	3	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINOVIC-ACID-3-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Stem	not available	130.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUBIADIN	1	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCIRUBINE	0	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
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	2	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	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	Hanke, F. J., Natural Products as a Resource for Biologically Active Compounds, Thesis, U. Cal (Santa Cruz), 1986, 252 pp
Allergenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amebicide	7	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Analgesic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	1	Wealth of India.
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaggregant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	2	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	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	9	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.