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
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	3	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MDR-Inhibitor	2	Critchfield, J. W., Welsh, C. J., Phang, J. M., Yeh, G. C. 1994. Modulation of Adriamycin Accumulation and Efflux by Flavonoids in HCT-15 Colon Cells. Activation of P-Glycoprotein as a Putative Mechanism. Biochem Pharmacol, 48(7): 1437-1445.
Metal-Chelator	2	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Molluscicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Nephrotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	2	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Oxytocic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pancreatogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	17	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phototoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pigment	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Prooxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *