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
CATECHOL-TANNINS	0	Bark	not available	80000.0	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSANTHEMIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSAZIN	5	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAIN-IA	0	Bark	not available	396.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAIN-IB	0	Bark	not available	836.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAIN-IC	0	Bark	not available	44.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAIN-ID	0	Bark	not available	51.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAIN-IIA	0	Bark	not available	327.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAIN-IIB	3	Bark	not available	291.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAIN-III-B	3	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Takechi, M., Tanaka, Y., Takehara, M., Nonaka, G. I., Nishioka, I. 1985. Structure and Antiherpetic Activity Among the Tannins. Phytochemistry 24 10: 2245-2250.
CINCHONAMINE	1	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAMINE	1	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONAMINONE	0	Bark	not available	13014.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONICINOL	0	Bark	not available	9589.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONIDINE	6	Bark	not available	25600.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONIDINE	6	Leaf	not available	2200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONIDINE	6	Root	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONIDINE	6	Shoot	not available	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINCHONIDINE	6	Stem	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
Antistomatitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antisunburn	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitachycardic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithiamin	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithyroid	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitrypanosomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Mouth)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	2	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	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 200.
Antiulcer	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiviral	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiwrinkle	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *