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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Cinchona spp (Rubiaceae)

Common Names
Quinine
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
DIHYDROQUININE 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
EO 0 Bark 50.0 -0.96 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
EPICATECHIN 40 Bark *
EPIQUINAMINE 0 Bark Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
EPIQUINIDINE 0 Plant *
EPIQUININE 0 Bark Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
FAT 0 Seed 5000.0 160000.0 -0.56 *
GALLO-TANNIN 2 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HOMOCINCHONINE 0 Plant *
HYDROCINCHONIDINE 0 Plant *
HYDROQUINIDINE 3 Bark *
HYDROQUININE 1 Bark Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
ISOCINCHOPHYLLAMINE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
JAVANINE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
METHYLSUCCIRUBINE 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NORSOLORINIC-ACID 0 Bark Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PARICINE 0 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PERICINE 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHLOBAPHENE 0 Bark List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-A-2 0 Bark Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
(-)-Chronotropic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Abortifacient 2 *
Absorbent 1 Martindale's 29th
ACE-Inhibitor 1 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic 2 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allergenic 3 *
Amebicide 6 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Anabolic 1 *
Analgesic 4 *
Androgenic 1 *
Anesthetic 2 Wealth of India.
Angiogenic 1 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaggregant 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 1 *
Antianaphylactic 2 *