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
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	4	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 210.
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insectifuge	2	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulinogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Interferonogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	1	Martindale's 29th
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *