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.
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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.