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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
CINCHONAIN-IC 0 Bark Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CINCHONAIN-ID 0 Bark Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CINCHONAIN-IIA 0 Bark Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CINCHONAIN-IIB 3 Bark Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CINCHONIDINE 6 Bark 12500.0 80000.0 1.00 *
CINCHONINE 7 Bark 15000.0 80000.0 *
CINCHONININE 0 Bark Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CINCHOPHYLLAMINE 5 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CINCHOTANNIC-ACID 0 Plant *
CINCHOTINE 0 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CONQUINAMINE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CUPREINE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CUSCAMIDINE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CUSCAMINE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CUSCONIDINE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CUSCONINE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
DICINCHONINE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
DICONQUININE 0 Bark ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
DIGIFERRUGINEOL 6 Tissue Culture Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DIHYDROQUINIDINE 2 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiinflammatory 5 *
AntiLegionella 1 *
Antileukemic 5 *
Antileukotriene 2 *
Antilipoperoxidant 2 *
Antilumbagic 1 Wealth of India.
Antilymphomic 1 *
Antimalarial 7 *
Antimelanogenic 1 *
Antimutagenic 4 *
Antinesidioblastosic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antineuralgic 1 Wealth of India.
Antineuritic 1 Wealth of India.
Antinitrosaminic 1 Ki Soon Rhee. Oilseed Food Ingredients Used To Minimize Oxidative Flavor Deterioration in Meat Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.18.
Antiophidic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant 4 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiperoxidant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 1 Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antiprostaglandin 2 *