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.
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
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-HYDROXY-2-HYDROXYMETHYLANTHRAQUINONE	1	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-METHOXYCINCHONAMINE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-METHOXYCINCHONAMINE	2	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,4,5-TRIHYDROXY-1-METHOXY-ANTHRAQUINONE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXY-1,3,4,6-TETRAMETHOXY-ANTHRAQUINONE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXY-1,3,4-TRIMETHOXY-ANTHRAQUINONE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-ALPHA,17-ALPHA-CINCHOPHYLLINE	3	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-ALPHA,17-BETA-CINCHOPHYLLINE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-ALPHA,17-BETA-CINCHOPHYLLINE	3	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-BETA,17-BETA-CINCHOPHYLLINE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-EPIQUINAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6,7-DIHYDROXY-1-METHOXY-2-METHYL-ANTHRAQUINONE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALIZARIN	11	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALIZARIN-1-METHYL-ETHER	2	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALIZARIN-2-METHYL-ETHER	3	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	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
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticholinergic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiedemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antielastase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	2	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	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.