Plant Frangula purshiana (Rhamnaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cascara Sagrada; Cascara Buckthorn

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
1,6,8-TRIHYDROXY-3-METHYL-9-GLUCOSYL-ANTHRAQUINONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-HYDROXYALOIN-A	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-HYDROXYALOIN-B	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11-DEOXYBARBALOIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN	24	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN	24	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN-8-MONO-BETA-GLUCOSIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN-8-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOE-EMODIN-DIMER	0	Bark	not available	1300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALOIN	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Bark	27.0	99.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRANOL	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Mary, N. Y., Christensen, B. V., Beal, J. L. 1956. A Paper Chromatographic Study of Aloe, Aloin and Cascara sagrada. J. Amer. Pharm. Ass. Sci. Ed., 45: 229-232.
ANTHRAQUINONES	6	Bark	60000.0	100000.0	1.00	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Bark	not available	0.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Bark	18559.0	67000.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
BARBALOIN	6	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Bark	13.0	46.0	2.14	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-AA	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-AB	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-AC	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
Diuretic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Genotoxic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)