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
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
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotropic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Wealth of India.
Antihepatitic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihypercholesterolemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiischemic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiLegionella	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *